LOCATION INGLEDOVE VAEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
TYPICAL PEDON: Ingledove loam - on a 3 percent convex slope in a cultivated field. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)
Ap-- 0 to 10 inches; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many fine and medium roots; 5 percent rounded gravel and cobbles; moderately acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (0 to 14 inches thick.)
Bt1-- 10 to 22 inches; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; many medium distinct reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, sticky, plastic; many fine and medium roots; many distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent rounded gravel and cobbles; moderately acid; gradual smooth boundary.
Bt2-- 22 to 32 inches; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) sandy clay loam; many medium distinct reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, sticky, plastic; common fine and medium roots; many distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent rounded gravel and cobbles; moderately acid; clear smooth boundary.
Bt3-- 32 to 45 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy clay loam; many medium distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few fine roots; common distinct clay films on faces of peds; 12 percent rounded gravel and cobbles; moderately acid; clear smooth boundary. (Combined thickness of the Bt horizon ranges from 30 to 54 inches.)
C-- 45 to 72 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/4) very gravelly loam; many medium distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3) mottles; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common manganese concretions; 45 percent rounded gravel and cobbles; moderately acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Wythe County, Virginia; about 1.3 miles east 72 degrees of the junction of Highways US-21 and VA-619 and 0.8 mile northwest 302 degrees of the junction of Highway VA-619 and Cripple Creek.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Solum thickness ranges from 30 to 60 inches or more. Depth to bedrock is more than 60 inches. Rounded gravel and cobbles range from 0 to 35 percent in the A, Ap, and upper Bt horizons and from 0 to 60 percent in the lower Bt and C horizons. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid through neutral in the A, Ap, and upper Bt horizons and from moderately acid through neutral in the lower Bt and C horizons.
The A horizon, where present, has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value of 2 or 3, and chroma of 2 or 3. It is sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loam, or silt loam in the fine-earth fraction.
The Ap horizon, where present, has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value of 3 through 5, and chroma of 3 or 4. It is sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loam, or silt loam in the fine-earth fraction.
The Bt horizon has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 4 through 8. It is loam, sandy clay loam, or clay loam in the fine-earth fraction.
The C horizon has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 4 through 8. It is loamy sand, sandy loam, loam, sandy clay loam, or clay loam in the fine-earth fraction.
COMPETING SERIES: These are the Botetourt and Secesh series. Botetourt soils have gray mottles in the argillic horizon. Secesh soils have lithologic discontinuities with a lower subsoil that contains more than 35 percent rock fragments of chert.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Ingledove soils are on stream terraces and flood plains. Slopes range from 0 to 30 percent. These soils formed in alluvium derived from limestones, shales, siltstones, sandstones, and quartzites. Climate is temperate and humid. Mean annual air temperature ranges from 53 to 56 degrees F. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 38 to 45 inches.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:These are the Alonzville, Berks, Broadway, Caverns, Clubcaf, Coursey, Derroc, Frederick, Gladehill, Groseclose, Gullion, Lehew, Moomaw, Newmarc, Nomberville, Shottower, Weikert, and Wolfgap soils. Alonzville and Coursey soils have lower base saturations and are on similar landscapes. Berks, Lehew, and Weikert soils are shallower to bedrock, contain more rock fragments in the subsoil, and are on uplands. Broadway, Clubcaf, Gladehill, Gullion, Newmarc, Nomberville, and Wolfgap soils have mollic epipedons and are on flood plains. Derroc soils contain more rock fragments in the subsoil and are on flood plains. Frederick and Groseclose soils contain more clay in the subsoil and are on uplands. Moomaw soils have fragipans and are on similar landscapes. Shottower soils contain more clay in the subsoil and are on similar landscapes.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained. Runoff is slow through rapid. Permeability is moderate. Subject to flooding.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas of these soils are cultivated. Corn, small grain, pasture, and hay are the principal crops.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The Valley and Ridge physiographic province in Virginia, and possibly, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. The area is of moderate extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Morgantown, West Virginia
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Wythe County, Virginia, 1989.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are: 1. Ochric epipedon - the zone from 0 to 10 inches (Ap horizon). 2. Argillic horizon - the zone from 10 to 45 inches (Bt horizon).
Soils now within the range of the Ingledove series were previously correlated as Allegheny, Hayter, and Wheeling series in published soil surveys.
SIR = VA0315
MLRA = 128, 147
REVISED = 1/3/90
ADDITIONAL DATA: Ranges for morphology, chemistry, and particle- size distribution are based on 12 pedons from Wythe, Smyth, and Washington Counties, Virginia.