IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dragston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Drags-9
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA001-070
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0070
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51154
  • 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: 37.6505280
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7409668
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 135 yards east-northeast 70 degrees of the junction of Highways US-13 and VA-626 and 0.5 mile north-northwest 350 degrees of the junction of Highways VA-626 and VA-624 in Melfa
  • Map Unit: BkA—Bojac 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-F6—Accomac, 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) fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00701
    Bt—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; 25 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) masses of reduced iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00702
    Btg1—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) 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; 25 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00703
    Btg2—51 to 102 centimeters (20.1 to 40.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine sandy loam; weak medium 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; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00704
    Cg—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 25 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/2) masses of reduced iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00705