IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gladstone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982MD031005
  • User Pedon ID: S1982MD031005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1982MD031005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0478
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51265
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 39.1621000
  • Std. Longitude: -77.1188389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Muncaster Road, Wiley Griffith property
  • 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: D. Yost and R. Yeck
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gladstone
  • PSC - 87 to 137 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/17/2015
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - NOT DESIGNATED
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    QUAL

    QUVE

    Quercus alba

    Quercus velutina

    white oak

    black oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    356 - 381

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—32

    87—271

    356—381

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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

    14

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    A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 medium and coarse roots; 13 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 20-48-75 millimeter gneiss fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P02379
    E—6 to 32 centimeters (2.4 to 12.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 medium and coarse roots; fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 20-48-75 millimeter gneiss fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P02380
    BE1—32 to 58 centimeters (12.6 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; clay films; 19 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 20-48-75 millimeter gneiss fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P02381. patchy - phpvsfiid 1053157; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053157
    BE2—58 to 87 centimeters (22.8 to 34.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) gravelly silt loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots; yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds; fragments observed by weighed method and 29 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 20-48-75 millimeter gneiss fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 82P02382
    2Bt3—87 to 120 centimeters (34.3 to 47.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and red (10R 4/6) stratified stratified clay to very gravelly sandy loam; moderate thick platy structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots; clay films on faces of peds; 59 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 20-48-75 millimeter gneiss fragments observed by weighed method. Lab sample # 82P02383. and sample 82P2384.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053158; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053158
    2Bt4—120 to 147 centimeters (47.2 to 57.9 inches); red (10R 4/6) stratified stratified clay to extremely cobbly sandy loam; moderate thick platy, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 medium roots; clay films on faces of peds; 70 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 20-48-75 millimeter gneiss fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 82P02385. and sample 82P2386.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1053159; continuous - phpvsfiid 1053159
    2Bt5—147 to 271 centimeters (57.9 to 106.7 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) sandy loam; moderate thick platy, and moderate angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 20-48-75 millimeter gneiss fragments observed by weighed method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # 82P02387
    2BC—271 to 313 centimeters (106.7 to 123.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) stratified stratified sandy clay loam to extremely gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 10 percent clay films; 92 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 20-48-75 millimeter gneiss fragments observed by weighed method; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 82P02388. and sample 82P2389.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053161; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053161
    2C—313 to 356 centimeters (123.2 to 140.2 inches); loamy sand; clay films; nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter gneiss fragments observed by weighed method and nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-162-250 millimeter gneiss fragments observed by weighed method. Lab sample # 82P02390. continuous - phpvsfiid 1053162; continuous - phpvsfiid 1053162
    2R—356 to 381 centimeters (140.2 to 150.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 82P02391