IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glenelg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986MD031006
  • User Pedon ID: S1986MD031006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0898
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59192
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 39.1845083
  • Std. Longitude: -77.0844056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4400 feet E on Brookville road from intersection of Zion road, 400 feet N of Brookville road in barley field.
  • 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
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD031—Montgomery County, 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: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • PSC - 18 to 68 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 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • 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—18

    18—76

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    —58—
    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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior channery loam; weak medium platy, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 very fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5400. 20 percent quartz rock fragments.; many very fine roots; common medium roots
    Bt1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5401. 10 percent quartz rock fragments.; many very fine roots; few medium roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 1053127; continuous - phpvsfiid 1053127
    Bt2—38 to 76 centimeters (15.0 to 29.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) interior loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5402. 5 percent quartz rock fragments.; common very fine and fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053128; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053128
    BC—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) interior very fine sandy loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5403. 5 percent quartz rock fragments.; few very fine and fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053129; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053129
    CB—91 to 112 centimeters (35.8 to 44.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior and red (2.5YR 4/8) interior very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 86P5404. 5 percent quartz rock fragments. Saprolite.; few fine roots
    C—112 to 178 centimeters (44.1 to 70.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 0.5 medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P5405. Common black manganese stains. 10 percent rock fragments. Saprolite.; few medium roots