IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frederick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 88MD043001-post
  • User Pedon ID: 88MD043001-post
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0175
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61279
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 39.7075005
  • Std. Longitude: -78.0211105
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 1/4 mi S of MD/PA state line 500 feet NW of Little Cove Indian Springs Rd.
  • Map Unit: FyC2—
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD043—Washington
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Frederick
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1992
  • Classifier - JB
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - fifth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frederick
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/16/1988 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—29

    37—160

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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

    9

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    201

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    90

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    Ap1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior very gravelly silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine roots; , 37 percent by weight nonflat angular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P2560; observed in pit, small. 37% coarse fragments.; many fine roots