IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pineyneck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995DE003006
  • User Pedon ID: S1995DE003006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0547
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67565
  • 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: 39.3802795
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5552750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Rod Eiband farm on Taylor's Bridge Quadrangle, east of State Route 9, about 0.3 mile south of County Road 454, 3600 feet east of road at woods line. About 1000 feet west of Cedar Swamp Wildlife Management Area.
  • Map Unit: LeB—Leipsic silt loam, 2 to 5 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: C.A. Coffin, R.L. Hall, and C.D. Parker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pineyneck
  • PSC - 20 to 70 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 - Coarse-silty, mixed Aquic Hapludults
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/31/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/31/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17-7
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    aquic conditions

    0—20

    20—114

    40—182

    66—182

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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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    6

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04136. Freshly tilled field, destroyed any residual structure, so not described.
    Bt1—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent medium masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04137
    Bt2—40 to 66 centimeters (15.7 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 1 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) medium prominent and 3 percent gray (10YR 6/1) medium and coarse distinct mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; clay films on vertical faces of peds and clay films in root channels and/or pores and skeletans on horizontal faces of peds; 3 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04138. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351424; continuous - phpvsfiid 1351426; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351425; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351424; continuous - phpvsfiid 1351426; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351425
    Bt3—66 to 114 centimeters (26.0 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04139
    2C1—114 to 134 centimeters (44.9 to 52.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) coarse prominent mottles; massive; very friable; 3 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04140
    2C2—134 to 182 centimeters (52.8 to 71.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) loamy fine sand; 21 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coarse prominent mottles; massive; friable; yellowish red (5YR 4/6) iron concretions and 21 percent medium irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 95P04141