IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weikert
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-AL-56
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA005-142
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0142
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51085
  • 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: 37.7869444
  • Std. Longitude: -80.1788889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: (Alleghany County, VA)
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA005—Alleghany
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA005—Alleghany County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37080-G2—Jerrys Run, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Weikert
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 28 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered shale, unspecified at 48cm
  • 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

    lithic contact

    5—48

    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

    35

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    894

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    210

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) channery silt loam; 18 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 medium roots and 11.0 fine roots; 25 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01421, VPI01422
    Bw1—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) channery silty clay loam; 13 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 30 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01423, VPI01421
    Bw2—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) very channery silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.9 medium roots and 0.9 fine roots; 40 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01421, VPI01424
    R—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); ; fragments.