IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dragston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Drags-2
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA001-063
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0063
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51147
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 37.5458984
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7787247
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 600 yards east-southeast 134 degrees of the junction of Highways VA-600 and VA-603 and 1.4 miles south-southwest 198 degrees of the junction of Highways VA-600 and VA-607 near Belle Haven
  • Map Unit: DrA—Dragston fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA001—Accomack
  • MLRA: 153B—Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-RIC—Richmond, Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA001—Accomack County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37075-E7—Exmore, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aeric Endoaquults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dragston
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aeric Endoaquults
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/22/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/22/2009 (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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00631
    Bt—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; 1 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2) masses of reduced iron and 1 percent fine faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00632
    Btg1—41 to 63 centimeters (16.1 to 24.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00633
    Btg2—63 to 76 centimeters (24.8 to 29.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00634
    Cg1—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00635
    Cg2—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent medium distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/2) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # VPI00636