IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-AL-1
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA005-131
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0131
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51074
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 37.7050000
  • Std. Longitude: -80.1091722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Jordan Mines, VA quadrangle; (Alleghany County, VA)
  • Map Unit: 52E—Weikert-Berks-Rough complex, 35 to 55 percent slopes
  • 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-F1—Jordan Mines, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: forestry data site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 44 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent strong weathered shale, unspecified at 81cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/27/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    81 - 89

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    41—81

    81—

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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

    14

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    671

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    280

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    BE—3 to 44 centimeters (1.2 to 17.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 6 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 36 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01312, VPI01311
    Bt1—44 to 67 centimeters (17.3 to 26.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; 3 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 57 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01311, VPI01313
    Bt2—67 to 84 centimeters (26.4 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silty clay; 10 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 47 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) masses of reduced iron; 5 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01314, VPI01311
    Cr—84 to 92 centimeters (33.1 to 36.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ; fragments.