IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fisherman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Fishe-9
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA001-080
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0080
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51185
  • 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: 37.8827591
  • Std. Longitude: -75.4313812
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 4.1 miles east-southeast 134 degrees of the junction of Highways VA-175 and VA-798 and 2.8 miles west-souteast 250 degrees of Assteague Point on Wallops Island
  • Map Unit: FmD—Fisherman-Assateague complex, 0 to 35 percent slopes, rarely flooded
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA001—Accomack
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern 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-H4—Chincoteague West, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, thermic Aquic Udipsamments
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fisherman
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, thermic Aquic Udipsamments
  • PSC - 25 to 100 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
    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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    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) fine sand; weak coarse granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.9 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00801
    C—25 to 76 centimeters (9.8 to 29.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.9 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00802
    Cg1—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00803
    Cg2—114 to 216 centimeters (44.9 to 85.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # VPI00804