IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chagrin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017VA043015
  • User Pedon ID: S2017VA043015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0788
  • User Project ID: BLAN_002_NEON
  • Project Name: Blandy Experimental Farm
  • Print Date: 4/17/2026

    • 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: 39.0874300
  • Std. Longitude: -77.9548000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: SW20 to pit center is 8m @ 260 degrees pit center to pit face is 44cm @ 100 degrees
  • Map Unit: 10—Chagrin soils
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA043—Clarke
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA043—Clarke County, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Yuri Plowden
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Dystric Fluventic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Udipsamment
  • Taxon Kind - taxon above family
  • Classificaton Date - 6/30/2017
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for extremely brief periods begining in may
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - BLAN_015
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 260
  • Plot Baseline Length - 8
  • Plot Width - 20
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of Pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Sara Saunders

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Saunders, Plowden, Noll
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—16

    16—48

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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

    1

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    132

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    80

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    A—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) fine sandy loam; 5 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; common fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N03936; observed in pit, small
    Bw—16 to 48 centimeters (6.3 to 18.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) sandy loam; 5 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; few fine roots throughout and very few coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N03937; observed in pit, small
    C—48 to 100 centimeters (18.9 to 39.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) loamy sand; structureless massive; loose; very few fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-37-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 17N03938; observed in pit, small