IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sassafras
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992DE003004
  • User Pedon ID: S1992DE003004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0277
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65620
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 39.4258347
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6986084
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: St. Andrew's School Property.
  • State: Delaware
  • County: DE003—New Castle
  • MLRA: 153C—Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: DE003—New Castle County, Delaware
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39075-D6—Middletown, Delaware

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Doyle F. Brown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sassafras
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/2015
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sassafras
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/1992
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/1992 (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—28

    28—79

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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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    18

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P02241
    Bt1—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) coarse sandy loam; weak subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; , 6 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method and , 2 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 20-50-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method and , 5 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2 - 4-? millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02242
    Bt2—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) coarse sandy loam; weak subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; faint clay films on sand and gravel and faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; , 5 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method and , 6 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2 - 4-? millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02243. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1060853; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1060854; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1060853; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1060854
    BC—79 to 114 centimeters (31.1 to 44.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coarse sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; , 10 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method and , 4 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2 - 4-? millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02244
    C1—114 to 208 centimeters (44.9 to 81.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loamy sand; massive; friable; 30 percent prominent manganese or iron-manganese stains on sand and gravel; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02245
    C2—208 to 241 centimeters (81.9 to 94.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sand; massive; friable; 1 percent iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    2C3—241 to 246 centimeters (94.9 to 96.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) very gravelly loamy sand; fragments.