IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duckston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Ducks-1
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA810-415
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0415
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51155
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 36.5841179
  • Std. Longitude: -75.8770294
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In False Cape State Park, about 800 feet west of Atlantic Ocean and 2.3 miles north of VA-NC state line
  • Map Unit: 15—Duckston fine sand
  • 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: 36075-E8—Knotts Island, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Siliceous, thermic Typic Psammaquents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duckston
  • Taxonomic Class - Siliceous, thermic Typic Psammaquents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: 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
    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 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; skeletans; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    C—5 to 38 centimeters (2.0 to 15.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) fine sand; 100 percent sand; 0 percent silt; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.9 fine roots; ; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04151
    Ab—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.9 fine roots; skeletans and organic stains between sand grains; fragments; ultra acid, pH 3.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04152
    C'—51 to 102 centimeters (20.1 to 40.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine sand; 100 percent sand; 0 percent silt; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.9 fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.7. Lab sample # VPI04153