IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sunken
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012MD019001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012MD019001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012MD019001
  • User Site Association ID: 2013 NCSS Nat. Conf.(Delmarva Peninsula Tour)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0421
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51957
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.4328611
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2323611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge just north of Beaverdam Creek and 800 feet east-northeast of the road intersections of Smithville Road and a "Jeep Trail" road on the 7.5' USGS Golden Hill topographic quadrangle.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD019—Dorchester
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD019—Dorchester County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38076-D2—Golden Hill, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Marty Rabenhorst, Jim Brewer, Phil King, and Diane Shields
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Endoaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty eolian deposits over fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA03_Raleigh) and NASIS Group Name (3-HAM Hammonton, NJ MSSO) was transferred to (MLRA12_Amherst) and (NE-HAM Hammonton, NJ MSSO) respectively to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/15/2012 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MOREL2

    PITA

    QUPH

    Morella

    Pinus taeda

    Quercus phellos

    bayberry

    loblolly pine

    willow oak

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

    hemic soil materials

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    reduced matrix

    argillic horizon

    0—5

    0—158

    0—19

    7—19

    7—158

    38—113

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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

    0

    —

    —

    1

    —

    1096

    —

    243

    14.2

    24.6

    3.5

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    MD9140

    VIENNA

    WETS
    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2) moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 13N01696
    A—5 to 7 centimeters (2.0 to 2.8 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 13N01697
    Eg—7 to 19 centimeters (2.8 to 7.5 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) silt loam; 20 percent clay; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries on surfaces along root channels; fragments. Lab sample # 13N01698
    BEg—19 to 38 centimeters (7.5 to 15.0 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) silt loam; 3 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries on surfaces along root channels and 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 13N01699
    Btg1—38 to 57 centimeters (15.0 to 22.4 inches); silty clay loam; 3 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries on surfaces along root channels and 17 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 13N01700
    Btg2—57 to 84 centimeters (22.4 to 33.1 inches); silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 13N01701
    Btg3—84 to 113 centimeters (33.1 to 44.5 inches); silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; 30 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 13N01702
    2BCg1—113 to 143 centimeters (44.5 to 56.3 inches); loam; 18 percent clay; 5 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 13N01703
    2BCg2—143 to 158 centimeters (56.3 to 62.2 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) very fine sandy loam; 2 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 43 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 13N01704. Original describers wanted a matrix color of 5Y 6/0.5 instead of 1 for chroma.