IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dragston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Drags-14
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA810-411
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0411
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51144
  • 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: 36.8757172
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0402145
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 620 feet northwest of junction of Oceana Boulevard and London Bridge Road, and 60 feet southwest of London Bridge Road
  • Map Unit: 36—Tetotum loam
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA810—Virginia Beach City
  • MLRA: 153B—Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-RIC—Richmond, Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA810—City of Virginia Beach, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36076-H1—Cape Henry, 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 - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/29/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/29/2009 (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); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sandy loam; 56 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04111
    Bt1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sandy loam; 53 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.9 fine roots; 38 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 38 percent clay films between sand grains; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04112
    Bt2—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; 48 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.9 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 38 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 38 percent clay films between sand grains; 5 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/2) masses of reduced iron and 15 percent fine distinct light gray (10YR 7/2) masses of reduced iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04113. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 472047; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 472047
    Btg—58 to 94 centimeters (22.8 to 37.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) loam; 51 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 13 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.9 fine roots; 38 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 38 percent clay films between sand grains; 10 percent medium distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04114
    C—94 to 145 centimeters (37.0 to 57.1 inches); variegated pale brown (10YR 6/3) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sand; 97 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 3 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonflat rounded 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # VPI04115