IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gaila
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MD027001C
  • User Pedon ID: S1988MD027001C
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0496
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60614
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 39.2471638
  • Std. Longitude: -76.9260999
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Clarksville, Univ. of MD Forage Farm, Howard County, 5.4 feet S of 1B, 28 feet SE of 1A.
  • Map Unit: MlB2—MANOR LOAM, 3 TO 8 PERCENT SLOPES, MODERATELY ERODED
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD027—Howard
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Inceptic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gaila
  • Classificaton Date - 12/12/2012
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Manor
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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—50

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    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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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P2551. 5% quartz gravel.; common fine roots
    Ap2—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P2552. 5% quartz gravel.; common fine roots
    Bt1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P2553. 5% quartz gravel.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots
    Bt2—36 to 50 centimeters (14.2 to 19.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 88P2554. 5% quartz gravel.; few fine roots