IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glenelg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991MD027001
  • User Pedon ID: S1991MD027001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0199
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64438
  • 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: 39.2516278
  • Std. Longitude: -76.9240139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: GgB—Glenelg loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD027—Howard
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD027—Howard County, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • 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 PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2015
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chester
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/1991
  • 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

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from schist
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    23—81

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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
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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); loam; 6 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 92P01319; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); clay loam; 7 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 92P01320; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); clay loam; 8 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 92P01321; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); clay loam; 1 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 92P01322; observed in pit, small
    BC—81 to 119 centimeters (31.9 to 46.9 inches); clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # 92P01323; observed in pit, small
    C1—119 to 147 centimeters (46.9 to 57.9 inches); loam; fragments. Lab sample # 92P01324; observed in pit, small
    C2—147 to 196 centimeters (57.9 to 77.2 inches); loam; fragments. Lab sample # 92P01325; observed in pit, small
    C3—196 to 244 centimeters (77.2 to 96.1 inches); fine sandy loam; 5 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 92P01326; observed in pit, small