IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Quindocqua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011DE001004
  • User Pedon ID: S2011DE001004
  • User Site Association ID: 3-HAM Benchmark Sampling MLRA Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7770
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55333
  • 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: 39.0353889
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6385556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Kent County, DE; Norman G. Wilder Wildlife Management Area. 733 feet South-southeast of S2011DE001001 (Fallsington cropped) and 879 feet south-southeast off of Road 249 and main gravel entrance road.
  • 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: SE—Southeast
  • 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: Rob Tunstead
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aeric Endoaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Quindocqua
  • PSC - 12 to 49 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/20/2014
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fallsington
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aeric Endoaquults
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 11/8/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • 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: flat
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/8/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 10
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—12

    12—49

    12—179

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); mucky peat; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N01724; observed in pit, small
    A—2 to 12 centimeters (0.8 to 4.7 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N01725; observed in pit, small
    2Btg1—12 to 32 centimeters (4.7 to 12.6 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine roots throughout and few medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 22 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N01726; observed in pit, small. Added the "g" suffix symbol per the description even though colors below are bright with chromas > 3.
    2Btg2—32 to 49 centimeters (12.6 to 19.3 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 15 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N01727; observed in pit, small. Added the "g" suffix symbol per the description even though colors below are bright with chromas > 3.
    2BCt—49 to 84 centimeters (19.3 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout; 7 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 33 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N01728; observed in pit, small. Changed the texture accordingly to KSSL data. The BCt is not part of the argillic as the total % clay is 11.2.
    2BC1—84 to 113 centimeters (33.1 to 44.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loamy coarse sand; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout and few medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 20 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N01729; observed in pit, small
    2BC2—113 to 137 centimeters (44.5 to 53.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 5 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 25 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N01730; observed in pit, small. Changed the horizon texture accordingly with the KSSL determination.
    2BC3—137 to 167 centimeters (53.9 to 65.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) coarse sandy loam; structureless massive; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N01731; observed in auger, bucket
    2Cg—167 to 179 centimeters (65.7 to 70.5 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) loamy coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 7 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N01732; observed in auger, bucket. Changed the texture for the horizon accordingly with the KSSL data.