IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mattapex
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MD029005
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MD029005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0521
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46075
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024
  • LOCATION

  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD029—Kent
  • MLRA: 153C—Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD029—Kent County, Maryland
  • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mattapex
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2015
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty eolian deposits over fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/15/2014 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—28

    28—107

    69—163

    107—163

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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

    270

    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 78P03027. No field or lab texture was reported
    Bt1—28 to 69 centimeters (11.0 to 27.2 inches); silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 78P03028
    Bt2—69 to 107 centimeters (27.2 to 42.1 inches); silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 78P03029
    2C—107 to 163 centimeters (42.1 to 64.2 inches); silty clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # 78P03030