IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Galestown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983MD019002
  • User Pedon ID: 83MD019002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53703
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 38.5705566
  • Std. Longitude: -75.8236084
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 mi. SE of Ennalls of Petersburg Rd. 50 yards. SW of the junction of Petersburg Rd. and Palmers Mill Rd.
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD019—Dorchester

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Brewer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Siliceous, mesic Psammentic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Galestown
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Downer
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, mesic Arenic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    1Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loamy sand; 10 percent clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P00049. few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    1Bw—28 to 79 centimeters (11.0 to 31.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior loamy sand; 12 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00050. few very fine roots
    1Bt—79 to 109 centimeters (31.1 to 42.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior sandy loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 37 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 37 percent , moist, clay films between sand grains; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P00051. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common clay films surface features between sand grains; few very fine roots
    1C—109 to 157 centimeters (42.9 to 61.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior sand; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P00052