IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elkton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992DE003017
  • User Pedon ID: 92DE003017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0282
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65625
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.3555565
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5958328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Atlas Sheet # 54; 100 feet E of CR 465 approximately 1 mile E of Tent.
  • State: Delaware
  • County: DE003—New Castle
  • MLRA: 153C—Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: DE003—New Castle County, Delaware
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39075-C5—Smyrna, Delaware

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard L. Hall, Mary Ann Levan
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elkton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Typic Ochraquults
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/11/1992
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/11/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P02280. With the seasonal wetting front, this surface horizon is very moist (mv).
    Btg1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 21 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine and medium distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P02281; moist when described;
    2Btg2—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) silty clay; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 21 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02282; moist when described;
    2Btg3—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); gray (5YR 6/1) silty clay; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) prominent and 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine and medium faint mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02283; moist when described;
    3Cg1—89 to 112 centimeters (35.0 to 44.1 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) very fine sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    4Cg—112 to 124 centimeters (44.1 to 48.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light gray (5Y 7/1) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sandy loam; weak coarse platy structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    5Cg—124 to 140 centimeters (48.8 to 55.1 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) silt loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium prominent mottles; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    6Cg—140 to 155 centimeters (55.1 to 61.0 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) silt loam; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments.; moist when described;
    259 to 274 centimeters (102.0 to 107.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 93P02284