IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hyattstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985MD031013
  • User Pedon ID: S1985MD031013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0386
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58191
  • 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: 39.2883339
  • Std. Longitude: -77.2330551
  • 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, subactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hyattstown
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hyattstown
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1985
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior channery silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P2285. 30% rock fragments.; many fine roots
    Bt—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior very channery silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots; prominent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 86P2286. 40% rock fragments. Micromorphology: Lattice-shaped highly birefriengent weathered rock materials dominate. Occasional papule but evidence of illuviation is weak.; many fine roots
    R—38 to 89 centimeters (15.0 to 35.0 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Hard phyllite bedrock.