IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Puckum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986MD019002
  • User Pedon ID: 86MD019002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0112
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.5483322
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7236099
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About .5 mi NW of Sharptown, MD; 120 feet SW of Rt 313 into swamp.
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD019—Dorchester

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Brewer and D. Harding
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Dysic, mesic Typic Medisaprists
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Puckum
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Puckum
  • Taxonomic Class - Dysic, mesic Typic Medisaprist
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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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    1Oi—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior peat; fragments. Fribic soil material; partially decomposed leaves from this years fall; layer is 80 percent water.
    1Oa1—10 to 51 centimeters (3.9 to 20.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior muck; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00664. Sapric soil material; 15 percent fibers, 5 percent rubbed, less than 5 percent mineral soil material; salinity .2 mmhoscm.
    1Oa2—51 to 102 centimeters (20.1 to 40.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior muck; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00665. Sapric soil material; 15 percent fibers, 5 percent rubbed, less than 5 percent mineral soil material; very soupy material.
    1Oa3—102 to 145 centimeters (40.2 to 57.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior muck; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00666. Sapric soil material; 25 percent fibers, 10 percent rubbed, less than 5 percent mineral soil material; 20 percent dead limb material of woody fragments 1 to 5 cm in diameter, which are firm but break under pressure; salinity .2 mmhoscm.
    1Oa4—145 to 165 centimeters (57.1 to 65.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior muck; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00667. Sapric soil material; 25 percent fibers, 5 percent rubbed, less than 5 percent mineral soil material.
    1Oa5—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior muck; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 87P00668. Sapric soil material; 20 percent fibers, 10 percent rubbed; 10 to 20 percent mineral soil material.