IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glenelg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: Glenelg S03-VA059-4-2
  • User Pedon ID: 03VA059004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: Glenelg S03-VA059-4-2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0259
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15792
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 38.8519783
  • Std. Longitude: -77.3649673
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA059—Fairfax
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA059—Fairfax County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38077-G3—Fairfax, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JDH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/25/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • Classificaton Date - 11/20/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from mica schist
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: schist, mica at 180cm
  • Geology: Harpers formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/20/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    COFL2

    KALA

    QUPR

    Acer rubrum

    Cornus florida

    Kalmia latifolia

    Quercus prinoides

    red maple

    flowering dogwood

    mountain laurel

    dwarf chinquapin oak

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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

    5

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; very fine roots and fine roots; 1 percent very fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter quartz fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01156; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt—10 to 91 centimeters (3.9 to 35.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; medium roots and fine roots; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent very fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter quartz fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01157; observed in auger, bucket
    BC—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) loam; 2 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; medium roots and coarse roots; faint clay films; 10 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; fragments. Lab sample # 04N01158; observed in auger, bucket