IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Montalto
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007MD015002
  • User Pedon ID: S2007MD015002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.7154732
  • Std. Longitude: -76.1182251
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Boy Scouts of America Camp on the east side of Octoraro Creek, 12500 feet east and 200 feet south of the Pennsylvannia State line
  • Map Unit: P362B—Montalto silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD015—Cecil
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD015—Cecil County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-F1—Rising Sun, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Susan Demas, Phil King, Dave Verdone
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Montalto
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Montalto
  • Classificaton Date - 11/30/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from gabbro
  • Landform: flood plain, coastal plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: diabase
  • Geology: Baltimore Gabbro formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/30/2006 (entry creation 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

    0—20

    20—117

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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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 0.8 very fine vesicular and 0.8 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume flat gabbro fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BE—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) gravelly silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 0.8 very fine vesicular pores; 5 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 15 percent prominent black (N 2/), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds; 16 percent by volume flat gabbro fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—36 to 71 centimeters (14.2 to 28.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay loam; 5 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) medium irregular and 5 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) fine irregular mottles; strong fine subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 medium roots in cracks and 0.8 fine roots in cracks; 4.0 very fine vesicular pores; 5 percent faint red (2.5YR 5/8), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent prominent black (N 2/), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume flat gabbro fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—71 to 117 centimeters (28.0 to 46.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; 5 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) medium irregular and 5 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine irregular mottles; strong coarse angular blocky parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.8 medium roots in cracks and 0.8 fine roots in cracks; 0.8 very fine vesicular pores; 5 percent faint red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent prominent black (N 2/), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds; 13 percent by volume flat gabbro fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BCt—117 to 200 centimeters (46.1 to 78.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) very channery loam; 5 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) medium irregular and 5 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine irregular mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 medium roots in cracks and 0.8 fine roots in cracks; 0.8 very fine vesicular pores; 25 percent faint red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent prominent black (N 2/), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds; 35 percent by volume flat gabbro fragments.; observed in pit, small