IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Queponco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957DE001007
  • User Pedon ID: S1957DE001007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4165
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40355
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.1119690
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6124115
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: State Route 52, 3 miles west of Wyoming. Haas Farm
  • State: Delaware
  • County: DE001—Kent
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: DE001—Kent County, Delaware

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. F. Hershberger, Oscar L. Lavoie, and L. J. Catnoir
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Queponco
  • PSC - 38 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/8/2016
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SASSAFRAS
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AHP 12-2
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—30

    38—66

    38—66

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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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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31787
    E—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; friable; tubular pores; 3 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31788
    BE—30 to 38 centimeters (11.8 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 tubular pores; brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31789
    2Bt1—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm; faint clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31790. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1472515; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1472515
    2Bt2—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; clay films; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31791. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1472516; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1472516
    2C1—66 to 74 centimeters (26.0 to 29.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) coarse sandy loam; loose; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31792
    2C2—74 to 84 centimeters (29.1 to 33.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coarse sandy loam; single grain; loose; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31793
    2C3—84 centimeters (33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A31794