IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dragston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Drags-4
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA001-065
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0065
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51149
  • 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: 37.8145599
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6449585
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 0.9 mile south-southeast 150 degrees of the junction of Highways VA-658 and VA-682 and 1.0 mile south-southeast 170 degrees of the junction of Highways VA-658 and VA-187 near Guilford
  • 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-G6—Parksley, 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 - 25 to 75 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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00651
    Bt—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) 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 light gray (10YR 7/2) masses of reduced iron and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00652
    Btg—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) loamy sand; 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; 20 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00653
    Cg1—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) loamy sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 12 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 12 percent coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00654
    Cg2—102 to 140 centimeters (40.2 to 55.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loamy sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 12 percent medium distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3) masses of oxidized iron and 12 percent coarse distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0. Lab sample # VPI00655
    Cg3—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # VPI00656