IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Quindocqua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002MD039675
  • User Pedon ID: S2002MD039008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0204
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13861
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024
  • 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: 38.1969185
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7973328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Rt. 13 to Rt. 363 West to North on Drawbridge Rd. to West on Fitzgerald Rd. to farm lane on left directly across rd. from Robert Fitzgerald's driveway (Waller's Adventure Farm).; USGS Monie topographical quadrangle; Lat. 38 degrees 11 minutes 48.9 seconds north and Long. 75 degrees 47 mintues 50.4 seconds west; MLRA 153D
  • Map Unit: QuA—Quindocqua silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD039—Somerset
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • 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 Y. Demas, Alexander Hall, and Phillip King
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Endoaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Quindocqua
  • Classificaton Date - 3/11/2016
  • Classifier - Suasn Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Quindocqua
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Endoaquults
  • PSC - 24 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/18/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/18/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

    2

    270

    Ap1—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate thin platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10 percent fine irregular brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00960
    Ap2—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent fine irregular brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00961. Pactchy areas of undecomposed organic material visable at bottom of horizon as a result of recent chisel plowing.
    AE—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent fine irregular brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00962
    Btg1—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00963
    2Btg2—36 to 42 centimeters (14.2 to 16.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00964
    2Btg3—38 to 57 centimeters (15.0 to 22.4 inches); 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 40 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; moderate very coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent fine irregular gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions throughout and 15 percent fine and medium irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00965
    2Btg4—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) loam; moderate coarse and very coarse subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent medium irregular gray (2.5Y 6/1) iron depletions throughout and 12 percent medium and coarse irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00966
    2Cg1—79 to 98 centimeters (31.1 to 38.6 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine sand; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent coarse irregular light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent medium irregular gray (2.5Y 6/1) iron depletions throughout and 5 percent fine irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00967
    2Cg2—99 to 163 centimeters (39.0 to 64.2 inches); 65 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 35 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine sand; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00968
    2Cg3—163 to 203 centimeters (64.2 to 79.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine sand; nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 02N00969