IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Linganore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985MD031012
  • User Pedon ID: S1985MD031012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0385
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58190
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 39.2744446
  • Std. Longitude: -77.2763901
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Montgomery County, Maryland.
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD031—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: James H. Brown, Steve T. Dyer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Linganore (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 28 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/24/2015
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Linganore
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1985 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    moderately coherent

    strongly coherent

    56 - 130

    130 - 155

    - 74 -

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

    lithic contact

    0—28

    28—43

    56—130

    56—130

    130—155

    —28—

    —15—

    —74—

    —74—

    —25—
    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

    4

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots; 22 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter phyllite fragments observed by weighed method; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P2280. 30% rock fragments.; many fine roots
    Ap2—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior channery loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; 30 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter phyllite fragments observed by weighed method; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P2281. 40% rock fragments.; common fine roots
    Bt—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior channery clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 23 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter phyllite fragments observed by weighed method; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P2282. 40% rock fragments. Micromorphology: Lattice-shaped highly birefringent weathered rock materials dominate. Little evidence of illuviation.; few fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 1053165; continuous - phpvsfiid 1053165
    BC—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior channery loam; weak fine platy structure; friable; , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 34 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter phyllite fragments observed by weighed method; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P2283. 70% rock fragments.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053166; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053166
    Cr—56 to 130 centimeters (22.0 to 51.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior bedrock; firm; 42 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter phyllite fragments observed by weighed method; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P2284. Inherited thin platy structure. 90% rock fragments.; Writhen description describes the testae as a extremely channery silt loam.
    R—130 to 155 centimeters (51.2 to 61.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Hard phyllite bedrock.