IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leipsic
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995DE003003
  • User Pedon ID: S1995DE003003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0544
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67562
  • 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: 39.4172211
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5950012
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Taylor's Bridge Lighthouse; 4000 feet north of intersection of county road 453 and county road 449 (SR 9), northeast side of dirt lane.
  • Map Unit: ReA—Reybold silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • 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-D5—Taylors Bridge, Delaware

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R.L. Hall, M.A. Levan, and C.A. Coffin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leipsic
  • PSC - 50 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/2015
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mattapex
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Aquic Hapludults
  • PSC - 50 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/31/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty eolian deposits over stratified alluvium
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/31/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17-9
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    0—50

    50—114

    68—183

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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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    4

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04114
    EB—25 to 50 centimeters (9.8 to 19.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) skeletans on faces of peds; 3 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04115. continuous - phpvsfiid 1351421; continuous - phpvsfiid 1351421
    Bt—50 to 68 centimeters (19.7 to 26.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; 3 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent fine irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04116
    Btg—68 to 88 centimeters (26.8 to 34.6 inches); 60 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; 21 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) coarse distinct mottles; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; skeletans in root channels and/or pores and clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04117
    BCt—88 to 114 centimeters (34.6 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium prominent mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films in root channels and/or pores; 21 percent fine irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 95P04118. Roots to 41 inches. Cultivated soybeans from last year.
    Cg1—114 to 132 centimeters (44.9 to 52.0 inches); 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) and 50 percent gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; 3 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) medium prominent mottles; massive; firm; 1 percent spherical iron-manganese masses and 3 percent medium irregular iron concretions and 3 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04119
    Cg2—132 to 163 centimeters (52.0 to 64.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; massive; friable; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses and 3 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 95P04120