IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hatboro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999MD005100
  • User Pedon ID: S1999MD005100
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0615
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12117
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.5230844
  • Std. Longitude: -76.4984722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Little Gunpowder Falls wetland west of Green Rd., 7 paces east of the well.
  • Map Unit: HbA—Hatboro silt loams, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD005—Baltimore
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Burch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Spreadsheet
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hatboro
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/30/1999
  • Classifier - Steve Burch
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for very brief periods
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for very long periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/30/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Steve Burch
  • Surface Water Kind: ponded
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 35
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—23

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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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    103

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    334

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    Oe—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    A—20 to 23 centimeters (7.9 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Cg1—23 to 85 centimeters (9.1 to 33.5 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silt loam; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix adjacent to pores and 10 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix adjacent to pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Cg2—85 to 120 centimeters (33.5 to 47.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) loam; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix adjacent to pores and 10 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix adjacent to pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C—120 to 145 centimeters (47.2 to 57.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) Error; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Cg3—145 to 190 centimeters (57.1 to 74.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) loam; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; few medium roots throughout; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket