IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dragston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Drags-15
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA810-412
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0412
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51145
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 36.6681557
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0340424
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 2700 feet southwest of junction of Vaughan Road and Princess Anne Road and 1300 feet west of Princess Anne Road
  • Map Unit: 13—Dragston fine sandy 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-F1—Pleasant Ridge, 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 - 9/27/2009
  • 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: 9/27/2009 (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); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; 53 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.9 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04121
    Bt1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) fine sandy loam; 52 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 0.5 medium and 3.0 fine pores; 38 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 38 percent clay films between sand grains; 1 percent fine faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) masses of reduced iron and 5 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04122
    Bt2—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); variegated light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine sandy loam; 58 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 medium and 3.0 fine pores; 15 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 15 percent clay films between sand grains; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04123
    BCt—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); variegated light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and light gray (10YR 7/2) loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 0.5 fine pores; 5 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 5 percent clay films between sand grains; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04124
    C1—81 to 124 centimeters (31.9 to 48.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) sand; 89 percent sand; 11 percent silt; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine pores; 10 percent fine prominent red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04125
    C2—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine sand; 97 percent sand; 3 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # VPI04126