IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954MD031001
  • User Pedon ID: S1954MD031001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1954MD031001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1202
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34811
  • 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: 39.0782667
  • Std. Longitude: -76.9878139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In wooded lot on N. side of Fairland Road, 1/2 mile East of Junction with Beltsville Road
  • Map Unit: GHB2—
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD031—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD031—Montgomery County, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. A. Bourbeau, M. Hershberger, and A. Baur
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chester (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/3/2013
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - CHESTER
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from schist
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACER

    CARYA

    CORNU

    QUERC

    Acer

    Carya

    Cornus

    Quercus

    maple

    hybrid hickory

    dogwood

    oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—97

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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

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    Oa—0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A09123
    Oi—0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A09122
    A—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; fine roots; fragments; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A09124
    E1—1 to 10 centimeters (0.4 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; tubular pores; 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09125
    E2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A09126
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), dry; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09127
    Bt2—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), dry; clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; clay films on faces of peds and manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments. Lab sample # 40A09128
    Bt3—69 to 97 centimeters (27.2 to 38.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6), pink (7.5YR 7/4), dry; clay loam; strong coarse angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm; clay films on all faces of peds and manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments. Lab sample # 40A09129
    BCt—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and red (2.5YR 4/8), reddish yellow (5YR 7/6) and reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), dry; clay loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 40A09130
    C—127 centimeters (50.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), light red (2.5YR 6/6), dry; sandy loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A09131