IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Milldraper
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982MD031004
  • User Pedon ID: 82MD031004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1982MD031004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0477
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51264
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.1578167
  • Std. Longitude: -77.1165833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Wiley Griffith farm; 100 yards north of Barn on homestead
  • Map Unit: 2B—Glenelg silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD031—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD031—Montgomery County, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Milldraper
  • PSC - 14 to 54 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/17/2013
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - NOT DESIGNATED
  • Classificaton Date - 4/14/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/14/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    POA

    TRIFO

    Poa

    Trifolium

    bluegrass

    clover

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    88 - 103

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—14

    14—54

    88—103

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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

    6

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    315

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    Ap—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 6 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter gneiss fragments observed by weighed method; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P02373; moist when described;
    Bt1—14 to 34 centimeters (5.5 to 13.4 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) loam; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter gneiss fragments observed by weighed method; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P02374; moist when described;
    Bt2—34 to 54 centimeters (13.4 to 21.3 inches); red (10R 4/8) loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter gneiss fragments observed by weighed method; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P02375; moist when described;
    BC—54 to 88 centimeters (21.3 to 34.6 inches); variegated red (2.5YR 4/8) broken face and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and red (10R 4/8) broken face stratified stratified channery fine sandy loam to clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few fine roots; 19 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter gneiss fragments observed by weighed method; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 82P02376; moist when described;
    R—88 to 103 centimeters (34.6 to 40.6 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 82P02377; moist when described;