IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Carmichael
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S03MD039-236
  • User Pedon ID: S03MD039-236
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0635
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15928
  • 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: 37.9729722
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6723611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: OtA—Othello silt loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes, Northern Tidewater Area
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD039—Somerset
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD039—Somerset County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37075-H6—Saxis, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Susan Demas, Alex Hall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Endoaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Carmichael
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2014
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty eolian deposits over fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding for brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/15/2014 (entry creation 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    0

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    0.6

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    270

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 03N02806
    EBg—3 to 12 centimeters (1.2 to 4.7 inches); fragments.
    2Btg1—12 to 46 centimeters (4.7 to 18.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 03N02807
    2Btg2—46 to 89 centimeters (18.1 to 35.0 inches); fragments.
    2BCg—89 to 114 centimeters (35.0 to 44.9 inches); fragments.
    2Cg—114 to 127 centimeters (44.9 to 50.0 inches); 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method.