IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hooksan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993MD047016
  • User Pedon ID: 93MD047016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0468
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65811
  • 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: 38.1666679
  • Std. Longitude: -75.1666641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Approximately 3 miles south of the Assateague Island entrance on the park road, 500 feet east of the road on an unvegetated dune.
  • Map Unit: BkB—Brockatonorton sand, 2 to 5 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD047—Worcester
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD047—Worcester County, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dr. George Demas, John Burns
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic, coated Typic Quartzipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hooksan
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/25/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Acquango
  • Classificaton Date - 4/14/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: dune, barrier island
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/14/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—8

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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

    8

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    5

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    1118

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    13.9

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03513
    C1—8 to 51 centimeters (3.1 to 20.1 inches); pale yellow (5Y 7/3) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03514
    C2—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03515
    C3—66 to 183 centimeters (26.0 to 72.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 93P03516