IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dekalb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-AL-4
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA005-134
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0134
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51077
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.7016667
  • Std. Longitude: -80.1294444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Alleghany VA- WV quadrangle; (Alleghany County, VA); 4050 feet 94 degrees southeast of the intersection of Highways VA-600 and VA-613; 20350 feet 18 degrees northeast of the intersection of Highways VA-18 and VA-608
  • 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
  • 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
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    8—33

    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

    56

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    884

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    162

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) channery fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 25 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01341, VPI01342
    Bw—11 to 36 centimeters (4.3 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very channery fine sandy loam; 69 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 45 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01343, VPI01341
    2C—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery fine sandy loam; 68 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 40 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01341, VPI01344
    2R—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); ; fragments.