IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glenelg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986MD031008
  • User Pedon ID: S1986MD031008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0900
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59194
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.1502806
  • Std. Longitude: -77.1476444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 240 feet W on Muncaster Mill Rd from intersection of Shady Grove Rd; 340 feet N of Muncaster Mill Rd 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

    • 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 #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • PSC - 23 to 56 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—23

    23—56

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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

    2

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    147

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5409. 10 percent rock fragments.; few fine roots
    Bt—23 to 56 centimeters (9.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5410. 5 percent rock fragments.; few fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053092; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053092
    BC—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5411. 10 percent rock fragments.; few fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053093; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053093
    CB—79 to 122 centimeters (31.1 to 48.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior and light red (2.5YR 6/8) interior fine sandy loam; weak coarse platy structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P5412. Streaks of very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2). 15 percent rock fragments.
    C—122 to 183 centimeters (48.0 to 72.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior and light red (2.5YR 6/8) interior sandy loam; massive; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P5413. Streaks of very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2). 15 percent rock fragments.