IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Manor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MD027001
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MD027001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1287
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34896
  • 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: 39.2382444
  • Std. Longitude: -76.8628722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: at southeast face of borrow pit on land owned by Phillip Brown on southeast side of US Highway 29 about 1/2 mile south of Scaggsville, Md.
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD027—Howard
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD027—Howard County, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. R. Berdanier, F. J. Carlisle, and D. S. Fanning
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, micaceous, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Manor
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/10/2013
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MANOR
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: saprolite derived from mica schist and/or some quartzite
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/19/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—13

    13—36

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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

    5

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    137

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    135

    1016

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    12.2

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; fine sandy loam; massive; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09783
    Bw—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09784
    BC—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; sandy loam; massive; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09785
    C1—64 to 74 centimeters (25.2 to 29.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sandy loam; friable; brittle; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A09786
    C2—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay loam; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) fine faint mottles; friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A09787
    C3—89 to 107 centimeters (35.0 to 42.1 inches); loamy sand; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A09788