IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Relay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MD510001
  • User Pedon ID: 88MD510001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0383
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60501
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 39.2988892
  • Std. Longitude: -76.7055588
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 75 feet NW of Nottingham Road and Lindsay Road in a wooded area of Leakin Park.
  • 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Relay
  • PSC - 48 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/30/2013
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Relay
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1988 (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

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    140 - 165

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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—48

    48—74

    140—165

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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

    29

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    95

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior silt loam; weak coarse granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. many very fine and fine roots; many medium roots
    E—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium and coarse roots; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. many very fine and fine roots; many medium and coarse roots
    Bt—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior loam; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P1976; observed in pit, small. common very fine and fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    BCt—74 to 107 centimeters (29.1 to 42.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots and 2.5 coarse roots; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P1977; observed in pit, small. common fine and medium roots; common coarse roots
    C—107 to 140 centimeters (42.1 to 55.1 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) interior sandy loam; massive; firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 88P1978; observed in pit, small
    R—140 to 165 centimeters (55.1 to 65.0 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small. Fractured granodiorite.