IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nimmo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Nimmo-8
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA001-109
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0109
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51812
  • 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: 37.9024620
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5493088
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 0.6 mile north 2 degrees of the junction of Highways US-13 and VA-695 and 1.3 miles south 182 degrees of the junction of Highways US-13 and VA-694 near Temperanceville
  • Map Unit: NmA—Nimmo 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-H5—Hallwood, 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 - 18 to 68 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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01091
    Btg1—18 to 76 centimeters (7.1 to 29.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 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 (10YR 7/8) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01092
    Btg2—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); light gray (N 7/), sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 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 yellow (2.5Y 7/8) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct gray (N 5/) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01093
    Cg1—114 to 132 centimeters (44.9 to 52.0 inches); very dark gray (N 3/), loamy sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.9 fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01094
    Cg2—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent medium distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent coarse distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct brown (10YR 4/3) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent coarse distinct brown (10YR 4/3) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # VPI01095