IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gladstone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MD510002
  • User Pedon ID: S1988MD510002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0384
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60502
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.3297234
  • Std. Longitude: -76.6244431
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 100 feet N from Wyman Drive, 200 feet E of Wyman Creek in Wyman Park in a cleared grassy area.
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD510—Baltimore City
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Maxine J. Levin, Thomas M. Griffin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gladstone
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/17/2015
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chester
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • 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: piedmont
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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—89

    —25—

    —64—
    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

    15

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    49

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. many very fine and fine roots
    E—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. common very fine and fine roots
    Bt—25 to 89 centimeters (9.8 to 35.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior sandy clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 4 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P1979; observed in pit, small. common very fine and fine roots
    C—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P1980; observed in pit, small