IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Benevola
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998MD021132
  • User Pedon ID: S1998MD021132
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0348
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10619
  • 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: 39.3911095
  • Std. Longitude: -77.2522202
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: New Market area; 1,400 feet north of Rt. 144, 1,300 feet east of Rt. 75, in a crop field just north east of Woodsprings Meadows.
  • Map Unit: EgA2—ELIOAK SILT LOAM, 0 TO 3 PERCENT SLOPES MODERATELY ERODED
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD021—Frederick
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD021—Frederick County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39077-D2—Libertytown, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carl Robinette, Phil King, Joe Kraft, Valerie Cohen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Humic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 132
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Benevola (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/30/2013
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ELIOAK
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/1998
  • 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: valley
  • Landform: knoll
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: marble
  • Geology: Sams Creek Marble formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/25/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 41
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—145

    0—20—25

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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

    2

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    149

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); 95 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) crushed silty clay loam; 19 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P02043; observed in trench
    Bt1—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); 85 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay; 25 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine vesicular pores; 10 percent prominent reddish black (2.5YR 2/1), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds and in pores and 10 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, organic stains on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 98P02044; observed in trench. Horizon is discontinuous on the east side of pit due to agricultural activities.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1104873; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1104874; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1104873; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1104874
    Bt2—43 to 84 centimeters (16.9 to 33.1 inches); 85 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior clay; 45 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 medium vesicular and 21.0 fine vesicular pores; 10 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) clay films on faces of peds and 10 percent prominent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P02045; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1104875; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1104876; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1104875; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1104876
    Bt3—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); 90 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior gravelly clay; 55 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine vesicular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 3 percent fine and medium spherical weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0) iron-manganese nodules throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic fragments observed by weighed method; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P02046; observed in trench
    Bt4—104 to 145 centimeters (40.9 to 57.1 inches); 85 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior clay; 42 percent clay; weak thick platy parts to moderate medium angular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine vesicular and tubular pores; 10 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-metamorphic fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 98P02047; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1104877; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1104877
    C1—145 to 231 centimeters (57.1 to 90.9 inches); 90 percent reddish black (2.5YR 2/1) interior silty clay loam; 22 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; very friable; 10 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P02048; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1104878; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1104878
    C2—231 to 239 centimeters (90.9 to 94.1 inches); 90 percent black (N 2/0) interior silt loam; massive; very friable; fragments.; observed in auger, bucket
    C3—239 to 292 centimeters (94.1 to 115.0 inches); 90 percent black (5YR 2/1) interior silty clay loam; massive; very friable; fragments.; observed in auger, bucket