IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pamlico
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Pamli-4
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA810-446
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0446
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51821
  • Print Date: 3/13/2025

    • 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: 36.8987045
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0147171
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In Seashore State Park, about 1.2 miles south of Shore Drive and 1.3 miles west of Atlantic Avenue
  • Map Unit: 26—Pamlico mucky peat, ponded
  • 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 - 102 to 127 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
    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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    Oe—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) mucky peat; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI04461
    Oa—10 to 102 centimeters (3.9 to 40.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) muck; structureless massive; masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI04462
    2C—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine sand; 98 percent sand; 0 percent silt; 2 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # VPI04463