IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Portsmouth
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Ports-3
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA810-452
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0452
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51840
  • 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: 36.5685997
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0053558
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 100 feet south of junction of Pocahontas Road and Princess Anne Road and 100 feet south of Princess Anne Road
  • Map Unit: 29—Portsmouth 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-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 - 28 to 78 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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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) fine sandy loam; 67 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 medium roots and 11.0 fine roots; ; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04521
    Btg1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sandy loam; 61 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 35 percent clay films between sand grains; 20 percent medium distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) masses of reduced iron and 20 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04522. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 472085; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 472085
    Btg2—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine sandy loam; 54 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 35 percent clay films between sand grains; 25 percent medium distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) masses of reduced iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04523. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 470973; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 470973
    2C1—69 to 79 centimeters (27.2 to 31.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sand; 88 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 5 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.9 fine roots; 20 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) masses of reduced iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04524
    2C2—79 to 124 centimeters (31.1 to 48.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) fine sand; 97 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 2 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.9 medium roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04525
    2C3—124 to 173 centimeters (48.8 to 68.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) sand; 98 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04526