IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Collington
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007MD033003
  • User Pedon ID: 07MD033003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007MD033003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0330
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19781
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.8530278
  • Std. Longitude: -76.6978889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Site was in a MNCPPC property located on Swanson Road in Prince George's County, Maryland. The site is on a terrace of the Patuxent River. Site ID number and Pedon ID number are 07MD033003.
  • Map Unit: AdA—Adelphia-Holmdel complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD033—Prince George's
  • MLRA: 149A—Northern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD033—Prince George's County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38076-G6—Bristol, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kraft, Joe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Collington
  • PSC - 19 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/25/2013
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Collington
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Quaternary Terrace Deposits, Undivided formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/11/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LIST2

    LITU

    SOLID

    Liquidambar styraciflua

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Solidago

    sweetgum

    tuliptree

    goldenrod

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—19

    19—71

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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

    1

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    6

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    1067

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    185

    13

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    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, dry; fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate thick platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; medium roots and fine roots and coarse roots; medium light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, clay depletions and fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; 1 percent of Glauconite pellet Content; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N02105; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—19 to 59 centimeters (7.5 to 23.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face sandy clay loam; 23 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; medium roots and fine roots; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; 9 percent of Glauconite pellet content; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02106; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—59 to 71 centimeters (23.2 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face sandy clay loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; 25 percent of Glauconite pellet content; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02107; observed in pit, small
    BC1—71 to 105 centimeters (28.0 to 41.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face fine sandy loam; 13 percent clay; structureless massive; friable; fine roots; fragments; 32 percent of Glauconite pellet content; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02108; observed in pit, small
    BC2—105 to 127 centimeters (41.3 to 50.0 inches); fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; structureless massive; friable; fragments; 35 percent of Glauconite pellet content; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02109; observed in pit, small
    CB—127 to 155 centimeters (50.0 to 61.0 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) broken face fine sandy loam; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; very friable; medium light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; 35 percent of Glauconite pellet content; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 08N02110; observed in pit, small