IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glenelg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999MD005006
  • User Pedon ID: S1999MD005006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999MD005006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0098
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11606
  • 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: 39.4811361
  • Std. Longitude: -76.6888778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Oregon Ridge 1 upper
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD005—Baltimore
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD005—Baltimore County, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JK, JB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, paramicaceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/2015
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • Classificaton Date - 9/30/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/30/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LITU

    QUAL

    QURU

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus alba

    Quercus rubra

    tuliptree

    white oak

    northern red oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    5—25

    46—99

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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

    11

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    90

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 00P00617
    Oe—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) moderately decomposed plant material; 21.0 very fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 00P00618. mod. decomp.
    A—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) loam; 9 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 interstitial pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00619. mica flakes: m-vh,f.
    AE—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 8 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00620. mica flakes: m-vf,f.
    BE—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; 13 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 0.5 medium tubular and 21.0 fine vesicular pores; 12 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00621. mica flakes: 2-vf,f, 2% kro in fill.
    Bt1—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) gravelly loam; 17 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine to coarse roots; 3.0 fine tubular and 21.0 fine vesicular pores; 21 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00622. mica flakes: m-f,vf; clay films: c-f-f.
    Bt2—64 to 104 centimeters (25.2 to 40.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) gravelly sandy clay loam; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 medium roots; 0.5 fine and medium tubular and 21.0 fine vesicular pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00623. mica flakes: m-f,vf; color moist: f-m-p FeMn N 2/0; clay films: c-d-pf; rock frags: 5% throughout, 10% in lower part.
    BCt—104 to 121 centimeters (40.9 to 47.6 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) gravelly sandy loam; 7 percent clay; moderate thick platy parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular and 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00624. mica flakes: m-f,vf; clay films: isolated f-d-pf; boundary following dip of rock like material.
    CB—121 to 152 centimeters (47.6 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and 10 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) gravelly loamy coarse sand; weak thick platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 18 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 00P00625. mica flakes: m-f,m, f-c; color moist: FeMn c-c-5YR2.5/2 layered; structure influence rock structure; rock frag.: 10% parchan
    C—152 to 208 centimeters (59.8 to 81.9 inches); yellow (10YR 7/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) loam; moderate thick platy structure; nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method. Lab sample # 00P00626. mica flakes: m-f; color moist: FeMn N2/0; consistence moist: 80% fr, 20% Fi.