IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Westphalia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007MD033001
  • User Pedon ID: S2007MD033001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007MD033001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0328
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19779
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 38.8488884
  • Std. Longitude: -76.7064972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: The pit was located on MNCPPC property on Swanson Road, Prince George's County, Maryland. It was "practice pit #1" for the Northeastern Regional Collegiate Soil Judging Contest, 2007, for that site. Pedon ID number and Site ID number are 07MD033001. The pedon sampled from this pit will be sent to NSSL for analysis.
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD033—Prince George's
  • MLRA: 149A—Northern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD033—Prince George's County, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Snow, Phil, and Kraft, Joe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Inceptic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Westphalia
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Inceptic Hapludults
  • PSC - 11 to 62 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 4
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Calvert formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/11/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—11

    11—24

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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

    14

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    1067

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    185

    13

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    Ap—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N02095; observed in pit, small
    Bt—11 to 24 centimeters (4.3 to 9.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face loam; 20 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; rigid, friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N02096; observed in pit, small
    BC1—24 to 84 centimeters (9.4 to 33.1 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 50 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) broken face loamy fine sand, fine sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02097; observed in pit, small
    BC2—84 to 119 centimeters (33.1 to 46.9 inches); 40 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) broken face and 30 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) broken face and 30 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) broken face fine sandy loam; 6 percent clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N02098; observed in pit, small
    CB—119 to 140 centimeters (46.9 to 55.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) broken face fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 08N02099; observed in pit, small