IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Queponco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MD039005
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MD039005
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 7A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01P0174
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13005
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 38.2036111
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7952778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Robert Fitzgerald property on north side of Fitzgerald Rd. south of Monie Creek adjacent to cemetary. Field behind Bob Fitzgerald's home. Somerset County, Maryland; about 0.75 mile west of the intersection of Fitzgerald Road and Black Road (State Rt. 627) near Venton on Fitzgerald Road, north on farm lane about 2,000 feet to cultivated field just north of private cemetery; USGS Monie, Maryland topographic quadrangle; lat. 38 degrees 12 minutes 14.12 seconds N. and long. 75 degrees 47 minutes 41.37 seconds W., NAD 83.
  • Map Unit: QeA—Queponco silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD039—Somerset
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD039—Somerset County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38075-B7—Monie, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Susan Demas
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Queponco
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/3/2015
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Queponco
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian deposits over fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Kent Island formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/17/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—25

    25—79

    102—183

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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

    1

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    2.4

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 8 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron stains on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent fine irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P01183. patchy - phpvsfiid 120582; patchy - phpvsfiid 120582
    Bt1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 50 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P01184
    Bt2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 50 percent silt; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 49 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P01185. patchy - phpvsfiid 120583; patchy - phpvsfiid 120583
    2Bt3—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) sandy loam; 50 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 49 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 3 percent fine irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P01186. patchy - phpvsfiid 120584; patchy - phpvsfiid 120584
    2CB—79 to 91 centimeters (31.1 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent medium irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron in cracks; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P01187
    2C1—91 to 102 centimeters (35.8 to 40.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 010P01188
    2C2—102 to 124 centimeters (40.2 to 48.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 8 percent medium irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent fine irregular pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) iron depletions throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 010P01189
    2Cg—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); 97 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 3 percent black (N 2/0) sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; prominent black (N 2/0) black stains throughout; 20 percent medium platy yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P01190. Two continuous bans of 10YR 5/6 iron concentrations approximately 1/4 inch thich each.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 120585; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 120585
    2C—152 to 183 centimeters (59.8 to 72.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sand; single grain; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent medium irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 01P01191