IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grosstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001MD017014
  • User Pedon ID: 01MD017014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0971
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14413
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.5468254
  • Std. Longitude: -76.7785416
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD017—Charles
  • MLRA: 149A—Northern Coastal Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD017—Charles County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38076-E7—Hughesville, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: EHE, SLD, DRPV
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Grosstown
  • PSC - 51 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/3/2013
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hughesville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    51—178

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    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    49

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly silt loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.9 medium and coarse roots throughout; 5.0 medium tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05107
    Bt1—10 to 51 centimeters (3.9 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.2 medium roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; 5 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05108. patchy - phpvsfiid 1060888; patchy - phpvsfiid 1060888
    Bt2—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very gravelly loam; 25 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 medium vesicular and tubular pores; on surfaces along pores and on surfaces along root channels and 60 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent very coarse yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) iron depletions; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05109. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1060889; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1060889
    2Btx—66 to 178 centimeters (26.0 to 70.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) extremely gravelly silt loam; 10 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 0.1 medium vesicular pores; 75 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent medium platy dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) ferriargillans; 90 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 01N05110. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1060892; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1060892