IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Watchung
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986MD510005
  • User Pedon ID: 86MD510005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0187
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59483
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 39.3713875
  • Std. Longitude: -76.6869431
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Gage Ct./ Falstaff
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD510—Baltimore City
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, smectitic, mesic Typic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Watchung
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/29/2013
  • Classifier - A Friend
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Watchung
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Typic Ochraqualfs
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

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

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—5

    0—152

    5—20

    20—89

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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

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Eg—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual boundary.; observed in pit, small. few medium prominent 10YR46 mottles
    Btg1—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior clay loam; 1 percent gray (5Y 6/1) coarse prominent mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 87P0981; observed in pit, small. few coarse prominent 5Y61 mottles
    Btg2—51 to 89 centimeters (20.1 to 35.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior clay loam; 1 percent gray (5Y 6/1) coarse prominent mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear boundary. Lab sample # 87P0982; observed in pit, small. few coarse prominent 5Y61 mottles
    Cg—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior clay loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog.; observed in pit, small