IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glenelg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986MD031007
  • User Pedon ID: S1986MD031007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0899
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59193
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 39.1610611
  • Std. Longitude: -77.0970472
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 400 feet E of intersection of Bowie Mill road and Cashell road, 2290 feet N of Bowie Mill road in cornfield.
  • 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 #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • PSC - 25 to 75 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 V
  • 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—25

    25—76

    —25—

    —51—
    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

    3

    —

    —

    143

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior gravelly loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5406. 20 percent rock fragments.; many fine roots
    Bt—25 to 76 centimeters (9.8 to 29.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds and faint , moist, clay films on sand and gravel; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P5407. 20 percent rock fragments.; common fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 1080875; patchy - phpvsfiid 1080876; patchy - phpvsfiid 1080875; patchy - phpvsfiid 1080876
    C—76 to 173 centimeters (29.9 to 68.1 inches); red (10R 4/6) interior very gravelly sandy loam; massive; firm; brittle; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P5408. 40 percent rock fragments.; This horizon was labeled as a Cr horizon on the lab sheet, but when correlated on the soil 8 in 1992 it was determined that it was a C horizon with high base saturation