IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Comus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007MD015001
  • User Pedon ID: S2007MD015001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0749
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19390
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 39.6093330
  • Std. Longitude: -75.8178329
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Adjacent to Elk Creek on north side of stream bank approximately 750 feet due south of Main Street.
  • Map Unit: P35A—Comus silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD015—Cecil
  • MLRA: 149A—Northern Coastal Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD015—Cecil County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39075-E7—Elkton, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carl Robinette
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Fluventic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Comus
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Comus
  • Classificaton Date - 11/13/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium derived from mica schist
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/13/2006 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—15

    38—99

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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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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular parts to weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 very fine roots and 6.0 fine roots; 17 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N04524
    C/Bw—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 4.0 medium tubular and 4.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; - 40 - percent of the total horizon; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N04525. (Bw part)
    C/Bw—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy sand; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 30 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; - 60 - percent of the total horizon; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N04530. (C part)
    Bw—38 to 99 centimeters (15.0 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N04526
    C—99 to 112 centimeters (39.0 to 44.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) loamy sand; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 25 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N04527
    C2—112 to 178 centimeters (44.1 to 70.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume subrounded unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N04528
    Ab—178 to 198 centimeters (70.1 to 78.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 10 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 07N04529