IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Baile
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986MD031002
  • User Pedon ID: S1986MD031002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0894
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59188
  • 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: 39.1751583
  • Std. Longitude: -77.0995416
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Montgomery County, MD: 420 feet E on State Rt 108 from intersection of Zion road, 250 feet S of State Route 108 in pasture.
  • Map Unit: 6A—Baile silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • 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: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Endoaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Baile
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/30/2015
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hoadly
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    reduced matrix

    0—18

    18—79

    20—157

    20—157

    20—157

    —18—

    —61—

    —137—

    —137—

    —137—
    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 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P5377. many fine and medium roots
    A/B—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5377. many fine and medium roots; many prominent 7.5YR56 mottles
    Btg—18 to 79 centimeters (7.1 to 31.1 inches); gray (N 5/0) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; strong medium platy, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; prominent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5378. few fine roots; very few to few medium prominent 5YR58 mottles
    BCg—79 to 124 centimeters (31.1 to 48.8 inches); 2.5Y 5/0 (2.5Y 5/0) interior and 2.5Y 4/0 (2.5Y 4/0) interior loam; 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) prominent mottles; weak medium platy structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5379. 5 percent rock fragments.; few fine roots; many prominent 10YR68 mottles
    Cg—124 to 157 centimeters (48.8 to 61.8 inches); greenish gray (5BG 6/1) interior gravelly loam; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P5380. 15 percent rock fragments.; few fine roots; many medium prominent 10YR58 mottles