IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glenelg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986MD031003
  • User Pedon ID: S1986MD031003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0895
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59189
  • 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: 39.1723528
  • Std. Longitude: -77.1041556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From the intersection of Zion Rd and Rt 108, 1900 feet S on Rt 108, 2100 feet W on farm road, 10 feet S of roadway.
  • Map Unit: 2B—Glenelg silt loam, 3 to 8 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, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • PSC - 33 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/2015
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Purcellville
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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 - 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—46

    46—79

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    —33—
    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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5381. 10 percent quartz pebbles.; many fine roots
    EB—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior gravelly loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5382. 15 percent quartz pebbles.; common fine roots
    Bt—46 to 79 centimeters (18.1 to 31.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior and red (2.5YR 4/6) interior gravelly clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5383. 15 percent quartz pebbles.; few fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 1080873; patchy - phpvsfiid 1080873
    BC—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior gravelly loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 86P5384. 25 percent quartz pebbles.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1080874; patchy - phpvsfiid 1080874
    CB—104 to 137 centimeters (40.9 to 53.9 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior loam; massive; very friable; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 86P5385. Thin very patchy clay films on ped faces of B component.
    C1—137 to 170 centimeters (53.9 to 66.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/4) interior and reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/8) interior fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 86P5386. Saprolite.
    C2—170 to 211 centimeters (66.9 to 83.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior and pinkish gray (5YR 7/2) interior and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior gravelly sandy loam; massive; firm; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 86P5387. Saprolite.
    C3—211 to 241 centimeters (83.1 to 94.9 inches); N 8/1 (N 8/1) interior and reddish yellow (7.5YR 8/6) interior fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P5388. Saprolite.