IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pamlico
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Pamli-3
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA810-445
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0445
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51820
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 36.8976021
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0135422
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In Seashore State Park, about 1.2 miles south of Shore Drive and 1.3 miles west of Atlantic Avenue
  • 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: Sandy or sandy-skeletal, siliceous, dysic, thermic Terric Haplosaprists
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pamlico
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy or sandy-skeletal, siliceous, dysic, thermic Terric Haplosaprists
  • PSC - 81 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/29/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: very 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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    Oa—0 to 48 centimeters (0.0 to 18.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) muck; masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI04451
    Oa—48 to 81 centimeters (18.9 to 31.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loamy sand; 78 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 10 percent clay; structureless massive; friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI04452
    2C—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sand; 95 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 2 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3. Lab sample # VPI04453