IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tent
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995DE003005
  • User Pedon ID: 95DE003005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0546
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67564
  • 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: 39.3791656
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5644455
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: East side of State Road 9, about 3500 feet north of County Road 491. Eiband Farm along powerline.
  • 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: R.L. Hall, C.A. Coffin, and M.A. Levan
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tent
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Typic Albaquults
  • PSC - 33 to 63 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
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/31/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17-7
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silt loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3 percent fine and medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04131
    Eg—22 to 33 centimeters (8.7 to 13.0 inches); 50 percent gray (10YR 6/1) and 50 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3 percent fine and medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04132
    Btg—33 to 63 centimeters (13.0 to 24.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; clay films and 1 percent distinct skeletans on faces of peds; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) iron concretions and 21 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04133. continuous - phpvsfiid 186801; continuous - phpvsfiid 186801
    Cg1—63 to 99 centimeters (24.8 to 39.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; 21 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coarse faint mottles; weak medium and coarse platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay films on faces of peds and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) skeletans in root channels and/or pores; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) iron concretions and 3 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04134
    Cg2—99 to 127 centimeters (39.0 to 50.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; weak very coarse platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint gray (10YR 5/1) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent medium and coarse irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04135
    2Cg3—127 to 144 centimeters (50.0 to 56.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) sandy loam; 3 percent gray (10YR 5/1) medium distinct mottles; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; clay films in root channels and/or pores; 3 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Water table had risen to cover this horizon by the time it was described.
    2Cg4—144 to 182 centimeters (56.7 to 71.7 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) loamy coarse sand; 3 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) medium distinct mottles; massive; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent fine and medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog.