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Catalog Number (archiveGUID): NEON05CC3SESAR Record

Sample Tag (SampleID): 2_BLANDY_PIT1_84-128_ARCHIVE_C1

SampleUuid: 90d85fa9-ec7d-462e-86dd-c946e35b72e1

Taxon: Udalf

Determiner: Don Flegel (2013-01-14)

Taxon Remarks: Identification source: harvested from NEON API

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Event ID: S13VA043001

Collector: Ed Ayres

Date: 2013-01-14

Additional Collectors: Derek Smith

Locality: United States, Virginia, Clarke, Mid-Atlantic (D02), Blandy Experimental Farm NEON (BLAN), Blandy Experimental Farm Megapit, MP1 [Location ID: MEGAPT100965]

39.06044 -78.07115 +-4m. WGS84

Verbatim Coordinates: 17N 756058.97771E 4324681.12924N

Elevation: 177 meters (581ft)

Description: Soil sample from the megapit for archive

Sampling Protocol: NEON.DOC.001307vA

Notes: C1--84 to 128 centimeters (33.1 to 50.4 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) broken face and red (2.5YR 4/8) broken face silty clay; massive; friable, very sticky, very plastic; few very fine roots in cracks and few coarse roots in cracks; 10YR 7/1) reduced matrix and 10YR 3/1) manganese masses; 35 percent unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N01590

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Blandy megapit soil profile (63 cm - 200 cm vertical soil profile visible)

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Record ID: 59816784-49f3-4d18-a2db-94f6fbdb7910

NEON Sample Viewer: 2_BLANDY_PIT1_84-128_ARCHIVE_C1

For additional information about this specimen, please contact: NEON Megapit Archive (soilarchive@battelleecology.org)

Associated References

Ayres, E. 2019. Quantitative Guidelines for Establishing and Operating Soil Archives. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 83(4): 973-981. https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2019.02.0050