IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Portsmouth
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Ports-1
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA810-450
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0450
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51838
  • 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: 36.6205482
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0288696
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 2500 feet east-northeast of Pungo Ferry Road and Princess Anne Road and 120 feet north of gravel 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); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; 46 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04501
    Btg1—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 33 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 fine roots; 0.5 medium pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 38 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 38 percent clay films between sand grains; 10 percent medium distinct yellow (10YR 7/8) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent coarse faint gray (10YR 6/1) masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04502. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 470966; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 470966
    2Btg2—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) loam; 35 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 fine roots; 3.0 medium and 3.0 fine pores; 38 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 38 percent clay films between sand grains; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04503
    2Cg—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) fine sand; 93 percent sand; 4 percent silt; 4 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # VPI04504