IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cedartown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997MD045018
  • User Pedon ID: 97MD045018
  • User Site Association ID: 8870
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 6E
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Transect Interval - 150.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0573
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10254
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 38.4477768
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7905579
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Approximately 3.1 miles SW of Mardela Springs; 5,600 feet NW of the intersection of Taylors Trail and Athol Rd., 100 feet west of Taylors Trail, 270 feet south of Taylors Trail.
  • Map Unit: RwA—Runclint-Cedartown complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD045—Wicomico
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD045—Wicomico County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38075-D7—Mardela Springs, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JEB, SYD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Siliceous, mesic Psammentic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 18
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cedartown
  • PSC - 74 to 109 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/9/2013
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cedartown
  • Taxonomic Class - Siliceous, mesic Psammentic Hapludults
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    C1

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    122

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    C1

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    mottles with chroma 2 or less

    0—20

    74—109

    145—183

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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

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    1168

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    MD8005

    Salisbury (Airport)

    FAA AP
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); 99 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face loamy sand; 3 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine low-continuity tubular and 3.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P03398
    E1—20 to 53 centimeters (7.9 to 20.9 inches); 90 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face loamy sand; 2 percent clay; 10 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) medium prominent irregular mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial and 1.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P03399. Mottles are Ap material.
    E2—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); 95 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) broken face loamy sand; 3 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine low-continuity tubular and 2.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P03400. Ped feature is a thin horizontal band.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1060739; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1060739
    Bt—74 to 109 centimeters (29.1 to 42.9 inches); 99 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face loamy sand; 7 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine low-continuity tubular and 2.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 20 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, clay bridges between sand grains and 70 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, coats on sand and gravel; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P03401. continuous - phpvsfiid 1060740; continuous - phpvsfiid 1060741; continuous - phpvsfiid 1060742; continuous - phpvsfiid 1060740; continuous - phpvsfiid 1060741; continuous - phpvsfiid 1060742
    CB—109 to 122 centimeters (42.9 to 48.0 inches); 55 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) broken face and 20 percent yellow (2.5Y 7/6) broken face sand; 2 percent clay; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 25 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, clay films throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P03402. Ped features are in the form of patches and thin discont. bands.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1060743; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1060743
    C1—122 to 145 centimeters (48.0 to 57.1 inches); 70 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face sand; 2 percent clay; single grain, and massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 fine low-continuity tubular and 1.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 10 percent medium and coarse irregular noncoherent cemented pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) iron depletions throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P03403. Loamy sand material is at top of horizon as a thick cont. band. Possible lamellae. Horizon sampled as one.
    C2—145 to 183 centimeters (57.1 to 72.0 inches); 50 percent light gray (5Y 7/1) broken face and 40 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) broken face sand; 6 percent clay; weak fine and medium platy, and moderate fine and medium platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1.0 medium low-continuity tubular and 1.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron between peds; fragments. Lab sample # 97P03404. Entire horizon is stratified. Below 183 cent. is a 3Cg of very fine sandy loam. (presently under water and unable to sample or describe.