IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Portsmouth
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Ports-0
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA810-453
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0453
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51837
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 36.6578941
  • Std. Longitude: -75.9913483
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 3650 feet southeast of junction of Gum Bridge and Charity Neck Roads, 4000 feet northeast of Charity Neck and Nawney Creek Roads
  • 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: 36075-F8—North Bay, 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 - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/28/2009
  • 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: 9/28/2009 (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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    A—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; 28 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04531
    Btg1—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 19 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.9 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 5 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 5 percent clay films between sand grains; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI04532
    Btg2—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; 22 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 0.5 fine pores; clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04533. patchy - phpvsfiid 470963; patchy - phpvsfiid 470963
    2Btg3—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sandy loam; 58 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04534. patchy - phpvsfiid 470964; patchy - phpvsfiid 470964
    2BCtg—81 to 91 centimeters (31.9 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sandy loam; 82 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.9 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; 5 percent clay bridges between sand grains and 5 percent clay films between sand grains; 1 percent fine prominent red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent coarse distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04535
    2Cg1—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches); variegated olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light gray (10YR 7/2) fine sand; 88 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 5 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI04536
    2Cg2—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and gray (N 6/), stratified stratified loamy sand; 78 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 12 percent clay; structureless massive, and structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2. Lab sample # VPI04537