IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crosiadore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004MD029003
  • User Pedon ID: S04MD029003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2004MD029003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0208
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18216
  • Print Date: 4/4/2025

    • 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: 39.1864738
  • Std. Longitude: -76.1859970
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: MxB—Mattapex-Matapeake-Butlertown silt loams, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD029—Kent
  • MLRA: 153C—Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-B2—Rock Hall, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crosiadore
  • PSC - 50 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/18/2013
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crosiadore
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Classificaton Date - 10/19/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty eolian deposits over fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: 1 coastal plain
  • Landform: 2 flat, 3 fluviomarine terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/19/2004 (actual site observation 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
  • Current Weather - rain
  • Current Air Temp - 16
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    LIST2

    PITA

    Acer rubrum

    Liquidambar styraciflua

    Pinus taeda

    red maple

    sweetgum

    loblolly pine

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

    argillic horizon

    50—162

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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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    Ap1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; 5 percent sand; 11 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01197
    Ap2—12 to 23 centimeters (4.7 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01198
    E—23 to 35 centimeters (9.1 to 13.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silt loam; 13 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist,; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01199
    B/E—35 to 50 centimeters (13.8 to 19.7 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 very fine vesicular pores; 10 percent medium light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, and 15 percent medium yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist,; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01200
    Btg1—50 to 86 centimeters (19.7 to 33.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) silt loam; 5 percent sand; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 5.0 very fine vesicular pores; 5 percent faint light gray (2.5Y 7/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, and 20 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist,; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01201
    Btg2—86 to 120 centimeters (33.9 to 47.2 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine vesicular and 4.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist,; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01202
    2Btg3—120 to 162 centimeters (47.2 to 63.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; clay films between sand grains; 10 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, and 20 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist,; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01203
    2E'—162 to 200 centimeters (63.8 to 78.7 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) fine sandy loam; 19 percent clay; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01204
    3Bw—200 to 210 centimeters (78.7 to 82.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine sandy loam; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # 05N01205