IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Portsmouth
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Ports-2
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA810-451
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0451
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51839
  • 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: 36.5757370
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0145493
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 700 feet east-northeast of Princess Anne Road and Landing Road and 1800 feet southeast of Princes Anne Road and Munden Point Road in center of Carolina Bay
  • Map Unit: 27—Pamlico-Lakehurst variant complex
  • 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-E1—Creeds, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Umbraquults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Portsmouth
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Umbraquults
  • PSC - 38 to 88 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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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; 39 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04511
    A—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); variegated very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; 37 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 11.0 very fine and 10.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04512
    Btg—38 to 76 centimeters (15.0 to 29.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) loam; 32 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 very fine roots and 0.9 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 medium and 3.0 fine pores; 38 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 38 percent clay films between sand grains; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent coarse faint gray (10YR 6/1) masses of reduced iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04513
    2Cg—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) fine sand; 97 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 3 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # VPI04514