IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brockatonorton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993MD047017
  • User Pedon ID: 1993MD047017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0469
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65812
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 38.2166667
  • Std. Longitude: -75.1500000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Approximately 2 miles south of the Assateague Island entrance on the park road, 50 feet east of the road in a vegetated back dune area.
  • Map Unit: BkA—Brockatonorton sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD047—Worcester
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD047—Worcester County, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Demas, John Burns
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic, coated Aquic Quartzipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brockatonorton (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brockatonorton
  • Classificaton Date - 4/14/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landform: dune, barrier island
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/14/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    61—183

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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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    —

    3

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    1118

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    13.9

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03517
    C1—8 to 61 centimeters (3.1 to 24.0 inches); pale yellow (5Y 7/3) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03518
    C2—61 to 127 centimeters (24.0 to 50.0 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03519
    2Oeb—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) mucky peat; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P03520
    2Cg—152 to 183 centimeters (59.8 to 72.0 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 93P03521