LOCATION CHANTILLY               VA

Established Series
DNS/JDH
10/2021

CHANTILLY SERIES

MLRA(s): 148 (Northern Piedmont)
Depth Class: Very deep
Drainage Class (Agricultural): Well drained
Landscape: Piedmont Plateau, Culpeper Triassic Basin
Parent Material: Residuum weathered from Triassic Sandstone and Shale
Slope: 0 to 45 percent slopes
Mean Annual Air Temperature (type location): 12.4 degrees C. (54 degrees F.)
Mean Annual Precipitation (type location): 1062 mm (42 inches)

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Typic Udorthents

TYPICAL PEDON: Chantilly sandy loam (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise indicated.)

Ap--0 to 51 cm (0 to 20 inch), brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; non sticky, nonplastic; many very fine and fine roots; 6 percent subangular quartz gravels; strongly acid; clear smooth boundary.

C1--51 to 69 cm (20 to 27 inches), red (2.5YR 5/6) sandy loam; massive; friable; slightly sitcky, slightly plastic; common very fine and fine roots; 4 percent subangular quartz gravels; strongly acid; clear smooth boundary

C2--69 to 102 cm (27 to 40 inches), yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sandy loam; massive; friable; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4 percent subanglar quartz gravels; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary.

C3--102 to 125 cm (40 to 49 inches), yellowish red (5YR 5/6) sandy loam; common medium prominent brown (10YR 4/3) and common medium faint yellowish red (5YR 5/8) mottles; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 7 percent subangular quatrz gravel; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary.

C4--125 to 152 cm (49 to 60 inches), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sandy loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few medium prominent light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist iron depletions; 8 percent angular quartz gravels; very strongly acid.

TYPE LOCATION: Fairfax County, Virginia; located in Ellanor C. Lawrence Park in the graded soil between the parking lot and the ballfields west of route 28, two thirds of a mile north northeast of the intersection of route 28 and route 657, and 1000 feet south of the intersection of route 28 and the large gas pipeline. Latitude 38 degrees, 51 minutes, 37 seconds north and Longitude 77 degrees, 26 minutes, 17.2 seconds west.

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 183 cm (72 inches)
Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: 102cm (40 inches) to Greater than 183 cm (72 inches), November to May
Rock Fragment content: 0 to 35 percent, by volume, throughout.
Soil Reaction: moderately acid to very strongly acid, except where limed

Range of Individual Horizons:
A or Ap horizon (if it occurs):
Color--hue of 2.5YR to 10YR, value of 3 to 6, and chroma of 2 to 8
Texture (fine-earth fraction)silt loam, loam, or sandy loam

C horizon:
Color--hue of 2.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 to 8, and chroma of 2 to 8
Texture (fine-earth fraction)clay, clay loam, silt loam, sandy clay loam,loam, sandy loam, loamy sand, or fine sandy loam

COMPETING SERIES:
Hattontown soils(tenative)--do not have as red hues in the substratum, and are found on diabase and basalt parent materials.
Wheaton soils--are found on parent materials derived from phyllites, and mica schists.

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Landscape: Piedmont Plateau, Culpeper Triassic Basin
Landform: Uplands
Hillslope Profile Position: Summit, shoulder, and backslopes
Geomorphic Component: Interfluve
Parent Material: Residuum weathered from sandstone or shale
Slope: 0 to 45 percent
Frost-free period: 150 to 194 days
Mean Annual Air Temperature: 6.2 to 18.7 degrees C. (43 to 65 degrees F.)
Mean Annual Precipitation: 904 to 1202 mm (37 to 47 inches)

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
Penn soil--are moderately deep
Nestoria soils--are shallow, and are Loamy skeletal
Catlett soils--are shallow, and are loamy skeletal over baked shales
Sycoline soils--are moderately deep, and moderately well drained

DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY:
Drainage class (Agricultural): Well drained to moderately well drained
Internal Free Water Occurrence: Very deep (greater than 150 cm), to modertely deep (highly variable)
Flooding Frequency and Duration: None
Ponding Frequency and Duration: None
Index Surface Runoff: moderate to very high
Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity: Moderate to very slow (highly variable
Permeability (obsolete): Moderate to slow (highly variable)
Shrink-swell Potential: Low to moderate

USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: urban development
Dominant Vegetation: Where wooded--black oak, chestnut oak, red oak, white oak, hickory, yellow popular, red maple, shortleaf pine and Virginia pine.

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: Virginia
Extent: Small

SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (SSRO) RESPONSIBLE: RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA

SERIES PROPOSED: Fairfax County, Virginia, 2006.

REMARKS:

Diagnostic horizons and soil characteristics recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon--the zone from 0 to 25 cm (0 to 10 inches) (Ap horizon)

ADDITIONAL DATA: S04VA059-14-2

OSD Data Map Unit ID: To be developed
Typical Pedon Data Mapunit ID: To be developed
OSD User Pedon ID: Chantilly S04VA059-14-2

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National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.