IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chagrin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017VA043019
  • User Pedon ID: S2017VA043019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0791
  • 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: 39.0876944
  • Std. Longitude: -77.9662500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Casey Tree Farm near Winchester, VA. Sampling site for National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).
  • 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: Mike McDevitt
  • 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 - Chagrin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Dystric Fluventic Eutrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2017
  • Classifier - Mike McDevitt
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - none
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - BLAN_019
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 34
  • Plot Baseline Length - 4
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of Pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Mike McDevitt

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Seitz, McDevitt, Jones
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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—17

    17—100

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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

    3

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    109.7

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    31

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    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; few medium tubular and few fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N03948; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—17 to 100 centimeters (6.7 to 39.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few fine roots throughout; few medium tubular pores; 5 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 2 percent by volume flat subangular 2-20-150 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 3 percent by volume flat subrounded 2-20-150 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N03949; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small