IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dragston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Drags-7
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA001-068
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0068
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51152
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 37.9981722
  • Std. Longitude: -75.4786472
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 1.0 mile west-northwest 276 degrees of Highways VA-679 and VA-712 and 2.1 miles north-northwest 334 degrees of the junction of Highways VA-679 nad VA-709 near Horntown
  • Map Unit: DrA—Dragston fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA001—Accomack
  • MLRA: 153B—Tidewater Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA001—Accomack County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37075-H4—Chincoteague West, 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 - 20 to 70 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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00681
    Bt—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) 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 strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00682
    Btg—41 to 76 centimeters (16.1 to 29.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) 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; 20 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium distinct very pale brown (10YR 8/2) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00683
    Cg1—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) loamy sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.9 fine roots; 20 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium distinct very pale brown (10YR 8/2) masses of reduced iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00684
    Cg2—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) loamy fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0. Lab sample # VPI00685