IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dekalb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-AL-2
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA005-132
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0132
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51075
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 37.6713889
  • Std. Longitude: -80.1702778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Alleghany VA-WV quadrangle; (Alleghany County, VA); 10000 feet 325 degrees northwest of the intersection of Highways VA-18 and VA-608; 10270 feet 90 degrees east of the intersection of VA-600 and VA-604
  • Map Unit: 30E—Lehew-Berks complex, 35 to 55 percent slopes, very stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA005—Alleghany
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA005—Alleghany County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37080-F2—Alleghany, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: forestry data site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, siliceous Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 28 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 53cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/27/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic contact

    30—63

    53—

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    42

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    853

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    138

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 33 centimeters (1.2 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) very channery loam; 50 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter quartz fragments and 20 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01321
    2Bw—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) very channery loam; 49 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 45 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01322
    2R—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); ; fragments.