IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Galestown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985MD019010
  • User Pedon ID: S1985MD019010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0115
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57920
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.6388889
  • Std. Longitude: -75.8177778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2.25 mi ESE of Hurlock, MD; .6 mi N of Harrison Ferry Bridge; .2 mi E of Palmer Mill Rd.
  • Map Unit: GaA—Galestown loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD019—Dorchester
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD019—Dorchester County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38075-F7—Federalsburg, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Brewer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Psammentic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Galestown
  • PSC - 38 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/22/2015
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Galestown
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Psammentic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: fluviomarine terrace
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1985 (actual site observation 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior sand; massive; friable; 5.5 very fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00730. many very fine roots
    E—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior sand; massive; friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00731. many fine and medium roots
    Bt1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior sand; massive; friable; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00732. Weak clay bridge. Micromorphology: Some bronw coatings on mineral grains appear to be illuvial clay and others weathering rims. A few papules were observed.
    Bt2—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior sand; massive; friable; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; , 2 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00733. Clay bridge.
    C—84 to 183 centimeters (33.1 to 72.0 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) fine sand; fragments. Lab sample # 86P00736
    C/B—84 to 183 centimeters (33.1 to 72.0 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) interior and reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P00734. Lamellae clay bridges.
    Bt—84 to 183 centimeters (33.1 to 72.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) sand; fragments. Lab sample # 86P00735