IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nimmo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Nimmo-4
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA001-105
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0105
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51808
  • 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: 37.8215141
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6651917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 365 yards west-southwest 230 degrees of the junction of Highways VA-675 and VA-682 and 0.6 mile north-northeast 36 degrees of the junction of Highways VA-675 and VA-676 near Clam
  • 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 Typic Endoaquults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nimmo
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Endoaquults
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/10/2009 (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 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 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; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01051
    Btg1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) fine sandy loam; weak coarse 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01052
    Btg2—20 to 76 centimeters (7.9 to 29.9 inches); dark gray (N 4/), sandy clay 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 yellow (2.5Y 7/8) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01053
    Btg3—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) 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; 10 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01054
    Cg—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); light greenish gray (10Y 7/1) sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # VPI01055