IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weikert
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-HI-30
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA091-172
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0172
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51115
  • 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: 38.3187778
  • Std. Longitude: -79.7346389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Mustoe VA- WV quadrangle; (Highland County, VA); 1500 feet 27 degrees northeast of the intersection of Forest Service Roads 258 and 258A; 6100 feet 331 degrees northwest of the intersection of Highways VA-84 and VA-604
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA091—Highland
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA091—Highland County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-C6—Mustoe, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Weikert
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 28 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 4
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone and shale at 43cm
  • 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

    0—23

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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

    65

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    890

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    40

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    Bw—3 to 26 centimeters (1.2 to 10.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery silt loam; 10 percent sand; 66 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01721
    C—26 to 46 centimeters (10.2 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) extremely channery silt loam; 10 percent sand; 66 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 32 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 32 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01722
    R—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); fragments.