LOCATION PINEYWOODS              VA

Established Series
Rev. SKT-WJE-MHC:DTA
09/2025

PINEYWOODS SERIES

MLRA(s): 136 (mesic part)
Soil Survey Regional Office (SSRO) Responsible: Southeast
Depth Class: Deep
Agricultural Drainage Class: Poorly drained
Index Surface Runoff: Moderate
Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Class: Moderately low
Shrink-Swell Potential: Low
Landscape: Piedmont uplands
Landform: Interstream divides, ridges, and side slopes
Parent Material: Residuum weathered from anorthosite
Slope: 0 to 7
Mean Annual Air Temperature (type location): 15 degrees C (55 degrees F)
Mean Annual Precipitation (type location): 1016 millimeters (40 inches)

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Clayey over loamy, kaolinitic, mesic Kandic Albaquults

TYPICAL PEDON: Pineywoods silt loam - on a 1 percent slope in a mixed pine and hardwood forest (cutover). (Colors are for moist soils.)

A--0 to 2.5 centimeters (0 to 1 inch); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many fine, medium, and coarse roots; 5 percent blue quartz gravel; extremely acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (0 to 10 centimeters thick.)

Eg--2.5 to 15 centimeters (1 to 6 inches; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common fine and medium roots; common medium prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) iron-manganese masses; 5 percent blue quartz gravel; extremely acid; clear smooth boundary. (0 to 20 centimeters thick)

Btg1--15 to 38 centimeters (6 to 15 inches; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common fine and medium roots; many distinct clay films on faces of peds; common medium prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) iron-manganese masses; 2 percent blue quartz gravel; extremely acid; clear smooth boundary.

Btg2--38 to 56 centimeters (15 to 22 inches; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) clay; weak medium prismatic structure parting to moderate fine and medium angular blocky; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few fine and medium roots; many distinct clay films on faces of peds; many coarse faint pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron-manganese masses; strongly acid; abrupt irregular boundary. (Combined thickness of the Btg horizon is 38 to 89 centimeters)

Cg--56 to 104 centimeters (22 to 41 inches); white (10YR 8/1) loam saprolite; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few fine roots; common clay films; many medium prominent irregular reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) iron-manganese masses and many medium faint irregular gray (10YR 6/1) manganese coatings; 5 percent blue quartz gravel; strongly acid; clear smooth boundary. (10 to 30 inches thick.)

Cr--104 centimeters (41 inches); light gray (N 7/0) soft anorthosite that crushes to clay loam.

TYPE LOCATION: Nelson County, Virginia; about 2300 southeast 146 degrees of the intersection of Highways VA-151 and VA-676 and 7000 feet north 14 degrees of the intersection of Highways VA-674 and VA-56, at Rose Union Church. USGS Arrington Virginia topographic quadrangle.

Latitude--37.731944
Longitude-- -78.998056
Typical Data Map Unit:
Datum--WGS84

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Solum thickness: 51 to 102 centimeters (20 to 40 inches)
Depth to Soft Bedrock: 102 to 152 centimeters (40 to 60 inches)
Depth to Hard Bedrock: Greater than 152 centimeters (60 inches)
Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: 0 to 30 centimeters (0 to 12 inches)
Rock Fragment Content: 0 to 35 percent, by volume, angular rock fragments (2 to 10 mm) of blue quartz and anorthosite, throughout
Soil Reaction: Extremely acid to slightly acid in the A and Eg horizons, very strongly acid to strongly acid in the Btg horizon, and strongly acid to slightly acid in the Cg horizon.

RANGE OF INDIVIDUAL HORIZONS:
A horizon:
Color--hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 2 to 4, chroma of 1 to 4
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--fine sandy loam, loam, or silt loam

Eg horizon:
Color--hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 to 7, chroma of 1 or 2
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--fine sandy loam, loam, or silt loam

Btg horizon:
Color--hue of 10YR to 5Y or is neutral, value of 5 to 8, chroma of 0 to 2
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--clay, silty clay, clay loam, or silty clay loam

Cg horizon:
Color--hue of 10YR to 5Y or is neutral, value of 5 to 8, chroma of 0 to 2
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--sandy loam, loam, silt loam, silty clay loam, or clay loam saprolite

Cr horizon:
Color--hue of 2.5Y or 5Y or is neutral, value of 7 or 8, chroma of 1
Texture--soft anorthosite bedrock that crushes to sandy loam, loam, silt loam, silty clay loam, or clay loam.

COMPETING SERIES:
These are no known series in this family.

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Landscape: Piedmont upland
Landform: Flat ridges and side slopes
Parent Material: Residuum weathered from anorthosite.
Mean Annual Air Temperature: 11 to 14 degrees C (52 to 57 degrees F)
Mean Annual Precipitation: 914 to 1118 millimeters (36 to 44 inches)
Frost-free period: 152 to 183 days

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
Colleen soils--are well drained
Sketerville soils--are moderately well drained.

DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY:
Agricultural Drainage Class: Poorly drained
Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity: Moderately low

USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Woodland
Dominant Vegetation: Mixed hardwood and pine

SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (SSRO) RESPONSIBLE: Auburn, Alabama

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: Virginia
Extent: Small

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Nelson County, Virginia, 1987.

REMARKS:
The June 2024 revision changed the location of this series to mesic MLRA 136 from MLRA 148. This was due to boundary line changes in the new Ag. Handbook 296.
The September 2025 revision reformatted the description to semi-tabular. No data was changed.

Diagnostic horizons and soil characteristics recognized in this pedon:
Ochric epipedon--the zone from 0 to 15 centimeters (0 to 6 inches) (A and Eg horizons)
Albic horizon--the zone from 2.5 to 15 centimeters (1 to 6 inches) (Eg horizon)
Argillic horizon--the zone from 15 to 56 centimeters (6 to 22 inches) (Btg horizon)
Paralithic contact--the zone starting at 104 centimeters (41 inches) (Cr horizon)

SIR=VA0294
MLRA=136 (mesic part)
REVISED=1/4/92, MHC; 09/2025, DTA

ADDITIONAL DATA:
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National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.