IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wiltshire
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998MD021134
  • User Pedon ID: S1998MD021134
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0350
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10621
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 39.3872223
  • Std. Longitude: -77.2541656
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: New Market area; Whispering Woods Subdivision
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD021—Frederick
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD021—Frederick County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39077-D3—Walkersville, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: PSK,CER,VC,JSK
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, subactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 134
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wiltshire
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/11/2013
  • Classifier - Aarion Friend, Phil King
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - CHESTER
  • Classificaton Date - 3/31/1998
  • 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: U-shaped valley
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 7
  • Bedrock: marble
  • Geology: Sams Creek Metabasalt/sams Creek Marble formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/31/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 41
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—163

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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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    158

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); 90 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) rubbed gravelly loam; 17 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter schist, basic fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P02059
    Bt1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); 90 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior gravelly silty clay loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine vesicular pores; 10 percent faint clay films throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter schist, basic fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P02060. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1053192; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1053192
    Bt2—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); 90 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine vesicular and tubular pores; 1 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, organic stains in root channels and/or pores and 10 percent faint brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter schist, basic fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P02061. patchy - phpvsfiid 1053194; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1053193; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053194; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1053193
    Bt3—84 to 117 centimeters (33.1 to 46.1 inches); 80 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay; 41 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 21.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent prominent black (N 2/0), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on vertical faces of peds and 10 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 3 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) iron depletions between peds; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter schist, basic fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P02062. continuous - phpvsfiid 1053195; continuous - phpvsfiid 1053196; continuous - phpvsfiid 1053195; continuous - phpvsfiid 1053196
    Bt4—117 to 163 centimeters (46.1 to 64.2 inches); 80 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior very channery loam; 26 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 3 percent fine and medium irregular black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses between peds and 3 percent fine irregular light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) iron depletions between peds; 42 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter schist, basic fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P02063. There are polygonal veins in horizon with N 2/0 interiors and 2.5Y 6/4 exterior.
    2BC—163 to 198 centimeters (64.2 to 78.0 inches); 80 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) interior silty clay; 37 percent clay; strong thin platy structure; friable; 10 percent prominent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on bottoms of plates; 3 percent fine and medium threadlike noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in cracks; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P02064. Rock fragments are dominantly from Sams Creek Marble.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053197; patchy - phpvsfiid 1053197