Deloss soil and landscape

Soil profile: A profile of the Deloss soil. This soil is very poorly drained. (Soil Survey of the City of Chesapeake, Virginia; by Greg Hammer, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

 

Landscape: Soybeans in an area of the poorly drained Tomotley-Deloss complex, 0 to 1 percent slopes.

 

Depth Class: Very deep

Drainage Class: Very poorly drained

Permeability: Moderate

Surface Runoff: Very slow to ponded

Parent Material: loamy marine and alluvial sediments

Slope: 0 to 2 percent

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Umbraquults

 

Solum Thickness: 40 to 60 inches

Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 60 inches

Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: 0 to 12, November to April

Soil Reaction: A horizon is very strongly acid to slightly acid. The B horizon is very strongly acid or strongly acid in the upper part and is very strongly acid to slightly acid in the lower part. The C horizon is extremely acid to neutral

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major Uses: Mostly wooded

Dominant Vegetation: Where wooded--swamp blackgum, sweetgum, water tupelo, cypress, water, and willow oaks, and an undergrowth of bay bushes, myrtle, and gallberry. Where cultivated--corn, oats, soybeans, small grain, truck crops, and pasture.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Lower Coastal Plain of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, and possibly Florida and Georgia

Extent: Moderate

 

For additional information about the survey area, visit:

www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/virginia/VA550...

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/D/DELOSS.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#deloss

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