IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-BA-38
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA017-167
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0167
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51110
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.1404444
  • Std. Longitude: -79.7367222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Burnsville VA- WV quadrangle; (Bath County, VA); 1600 feet 124 degrees southeast of the intersection of Highway Us-220 and Forest Service Road 124; 9000 feet 186 degrees southwest of the intersection of Highway US-220 and Forest Service Road 1747
  • Map Unit: 31C—Lily-McClung-Dekalb complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA017—Bath
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA017—Bath County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-B6—Burnsville, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 28 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 76cm
  • 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

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    25—58

    58—

    76—

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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

    20

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    917

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    330

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    E—6 to 28 centimeters (2.4 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 36 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01671, VPI01672
    Bw—28 to 61 centimeters (11.0 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) loam; 36 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01673, VPI01671
    2C—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) gravelly sandy clay loam; 57 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 23 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01674, VPI01671
    2R—79 to 89 centimeters (31.1 to 35.0 inches); fragments.