IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Woodstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995DE003001
  • User Pedon ID: 95DE003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0542
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67560
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.3102760
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7383347
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: West side of Harvey Straughn Road (County Road 7), 180 feet north of dirt drive at second utility pole heading west towards a two-story yellow farm house.
  • State: Delaware
  • County: DE003—New Castle
  • MLRA: 153C—Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: DE003—New Castle County, Delaware

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles Parker, Christine Coffin, and Mary Ann Levan
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Woodstown
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Aquic Hapludults
  • PSC - 22 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/31/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: alluvial flat
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/31/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 09-19
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    22—58

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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

    3

    45

    30

    20

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04109
    Bt—22 to 58 centimeters (8.7 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; 1 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04110. Sample pulled for particle size and mineralogy.
    BC—58 to 73 centimeters (22.8 to 28.7 inches); sandy loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium distinct mottles; firm; medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments.
    C1—73 to 91 centimeters (28.7 to 35.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) loamy sand; 3 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) medium distinct mottles; very friable; 3 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments.
    2C2—91 to 106 centimeters (35.8 to 41.7 inches); 50 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) sandy loam; friable; 3 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments.
    2C3—106 to 142 centimeters (41.7 to 55.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) loamy sand; 3 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) medium distinct and 3 percent gray (10YR 5/1) mottles; very friable; 3 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments.
    3C4—142 to 182 centimeters (55.9 to 71.7 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sandy loam; 3 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) coarse prominent mottles; friable; 3 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments.