IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Quindocqua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011DE001001
  • User Pedon ID: S2011DE001001
  • User Site Association ID: 3-HAM Benchmark Sampling MLRA Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N0025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47531
  • 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: 39.0372056
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6396750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Kent County, DE; Norman G. Wilder State Wildlife Management Area.
  • Map Unit: FgcA—Fallsington loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes, Mid-Altlantic Coastal Plain
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Delaware
  • County: DE001—Kent
  • MLRA: 153C—Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: DE001—Kent County, Delaware
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39075-A6—Marydel, Delaware
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Phil King
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Endoaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • 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 - Fallsington
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Endoaquults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 18
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    0—29

    19—

    29—50

    —-

    —-

    —-

    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    10/6/2011

    50

    18

    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

    18.3

    270

    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 13.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine vesicular and 7.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00110; observed in pit, small
    BEg—19 to 29 centimeters (7.5 to 11.4 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00111; observed in pit, small
    Btg—29 to 50 centimeters (11.4 to 19.7 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular and 7.0 fine tubular and 5.0 fine vesicular pores; 35 percent faint dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions and 25 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 12N00112; observed in pit, small
    BCtg—50 to 73 centimeters (19.7 to 28.7 inches); fine sandy loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak thick platy structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots in cracks; 2.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, clay films; 30 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00113; observed in pit, small
    Cg1—73 to 107 centimeters (28.7 to 42.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) loamy sand; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 30 percent organic stains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00114; observed in pit, small
    Cg2—107 to 149 centimeters (42.1 to 58.7 inches); loamy coarse sand; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00115; observed in pit, small
    Cg3—149 to 206 centimeters (58.7 to 81.1 inches); loamy coarse sand; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 6 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by weighed method; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 12N00116; observed in pit, small