IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Augusta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Augus-3
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA810-377
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0377
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50978
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 36.7300377
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0516052
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 3700 feet north-northwest of junction of Indian River Road and West Neck Road and about 300 feet southwest of sharp curve on West Neck Road in edge of field, 100 feet east of drainage ditch
  • Map Unit: 3—Augusta 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-F1—Pleasant Ridge, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aeric Endoaquults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Augusta
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aeric Endoaquults
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/30/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/30/2009 (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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; 41 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.9 fine roots; 1 percent skeletans; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI03771
    Bt1—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; 30 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 medium roots and 0.9 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI03772. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 470856; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 470856
    Bt2—43 to 81 centimeters (16.9 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy clay loam; 51 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 fine roots; 38 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 38 percent clay films between sand grains; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1) masses of reduced iron; 1 percent fine shell fragments; shell fragments fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI03773
    Bt3—81 to 124 centimeters (31.9 to 48.8 inches); variegated brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; 47 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 21 percent clay; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 38 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 38 percent clay films between sand grains; 1 percent fine shell fragments; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI03774
    2Cg1—124 to 180 centimeters (48.8 to 70.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) loamy sand; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent fine shell fragments; shell fragments fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    2Cg2—180 to 203 centimeters (70.9 to 79.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments.