IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Emporia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Empor-2
  • User Pedon ID: V1984-VA081-235
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0235
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51161
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 36.6412239
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6138687
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 530 yards north northeast of the junction of Highways VA-627 an VA-675 and 165 yards west of Highway VA-627
  • Map Unit: 10C3—Craven clay loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, severely eroded
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA081—Greensville
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-RIC—Richmond, Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA081—Greensville County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36077-F5—Emporia, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Emporia
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loamy sand; 82 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 medium roots and 11.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI02351
    E—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 8 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI02352
    Bt1—48 to 81 centimeters (18.9 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; 68 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct clay films between sand grains and 35 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02353
    Bt2—81 to 112 centimeters (31.9 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; 58 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 35 percent clay; weak very thick platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct clay films between sand grains and 35 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; 25 percent medium distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02354
    C—112 to 170 centimeters (44.1 to 66.9 inches); variegated red (10R 4/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light gray (10YR 7/2) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) sandy clay loam; 67 percent sand; 6 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate very thick platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6. Lab sample # VPI02355