IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Melvin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MD005006
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MD005006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P1338
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12831
  • Print Date: 4/2/2025

    • 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: 39.4251222
  • Std. Longitude: -76.7557528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD005—Baltimore
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD005—Baltimore County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-D7—Reisterstown, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Melvin
  • Classificaton Date - 1/28/2016
  • Classifier - Ben Marshall
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak medium granular structure; 21.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07816. many fine mica.
    AB—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; 3.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 5 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 2 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07817. many fine mica
    Bg—18 to 39 centimeters (7.1 to 15.4 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) silt loam; 10 percent brown (10YR 5/3) mottles; weak thick platy structure; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 20 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 5 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P07818. many fine mica; Bg is a reduced matrix fresh 2.5Y 4/1, oxidized 10YR 4/3
    Oa—39 to 63 centimeters (15.4 to 24.8 inches); black (N 2/0) mucky muck; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07819. 5% fiber unrubbed and 0% fiber rubbed; many fine mica.
    2Cg—63 to 90 centimeters (24.8 to 35.4 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) extremely gravelly loamy sand; 1.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 20 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6); 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P07820. redoximorphic features: root & gravel faces; 0-structureless; many fine mica.
    2C—90 to 114 centimeters (35.4 to 44.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and dark gray (5Y 4/1), yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and brown (10YR 5/3), dry; extremely gravelly loamy sand; fragments. Lab sample # 00P07821. 0-structureless; many fine mica.