Virginia is a four-season state. August days can be - on the average - hot and humid, while January days can be cold and dry. The warmth in the air in early Spring, and the chill in the air in the Fall, feel different from other seasons. That's the climate pattern.
A hydric soil is a soil that is saturated, flooded, or ponded long enough during the growing season to develop anaerobic conditions in the upper part. 1  This definition can be broken up into three component parts: 2  The soil is saturated, flooded or ponded. Saturated conditions are often the result of a high water table.
Additionally as a result of the wet, anaerobic environment the soil takes on a characteristic reducing condition and undergoes chemical reactions that are different than non-hydric soils. Hydric soil properties and indicators. The physical, chemical and biological properties which make hydric soils recognizable are the result of complex biogeochemical processes occurring over many years. Hydric soils usually have a water table, or the top of a zone of saturation, within one foot from the ...