IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glenelg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999MD005007
  • User Pedon ID: S1999MD005007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999MD005007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0099
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11607
  • 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: 39.4811278
  • Std. Longitude: -76.6883250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Oregon Ridge 1 lower or mid slope.
  • 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

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, paramicaceous, subactive, 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 #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • PSC - 23 to 73 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 - 10/1/1999
  • 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

  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1999 (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

    ACER

    CARYA

    QUAL

    Acer

    Carya

    Quercus alba

    maple

    hybrid hickory

    white 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—23

    36—81

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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

    10

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    90

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    Os1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 00P00627
    Oi2—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 00P00628. leaf & twig discontinuous.
    A—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) mucky sandy loam; 10 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00629. m-f mica.
    AE—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 fine vesicular and tubular pores; 6 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00630. m-f mica; krotovinas in filling.
    BE—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) loam; 17 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 fine vesicular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00631. m-f mica; color moist or. coats.
    Bt1—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam; 21 percent clay; moderate medium, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 fine tubular and 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00632. m-f mica.
    Bt2—63 to 81 centimeters (24.8 to 31.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) sandy clay; 17 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine vesicular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 9 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00633. m-f mica; m-FeMn 2.5YR 2.5/1.
    BCt1—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and red (2.5YR 5/6) very gravelly sandy clay loam; 11 percent clay; weak thick platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 medium vesicular and 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 36 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00634. m-m&c mica; 2.5YR 2.5/1 FeMn; rock frags confined to upper 4'.
    BCt2—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) and red (2.5YR 4/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine sandy loam; 5 percent clay; weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine vesicular pores; 4 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00635. m-m&c mica; 2.5YR 2.5/1 Fe Mn.
    BCt3—122 to 145 centimeters (48.0 to 57.1 inches); coarse sandy loam; 7 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method. Lab sample # 00P00636
    C1—145 to 192 centimeters (57.1 to 75.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) gravelly coarse sand; 2 percent clay; weak thick platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00637. vmf mica; 2.5YR 2.5/1 FeMn.
    C2—192 to 208 centimeters (75.6 to 81.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) loamy coarse sand; weak thick platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 medium roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P00638. 20% 15 qtz gr, 20% 5 schist parach; 10YR 8/3 mica flake; m m 2.5YR 2.5/1 FeMn.