IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Manokin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012MD035002
  • User Pedon ID: S2012MD035002
  • User Site Association ID: 2013 NCSS Nat. Conf.(Delmarva Peninsula Tour)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0424
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51960
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.9297194
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2008306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - PDOP: 2
  • Location Description: Talisman Farm (Piney Neck) NCSS Conference 2013 pit just north of a drainage ditch in the old landing field per the Queenstown, MD 7.5' USGS topographic quadrangle.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD035—Queen Anne's
  • MLRA: 153C—Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD035—Queen Anne's County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38076-H2—Queenstown, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Diane Shields, Phil King, Jim Brewer, Marty Rabenhorst, Susan Demas, & Rob Tunstead
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Manokin
  • PSC - 37 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/2013
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty eolian deposits over fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: upland on coastal plain
  • Landform: broad interstream divide
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/29/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—26

    37—79

    68—93

    79—119

    119—205

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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

    2

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    3.7

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    270

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    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; 9 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    Ap2—15 to 26 centimeters (5.9 to 10.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; 10 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    BE—26 to 37 centimeters (10.2 to 14.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt1—37 to 68 centimeters (14.6 to 26.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1075273; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1075273
    Bt2—68 to 79 centimeters (26.8 to 31.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries throughout and 10 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.
    2BC1—79 to 93 centimeters (31.1 to 36.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 11 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 10 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    2BC2—93 to 119 centimeters (36.6 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine sandy loam; 9 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 7/3) iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout and 20 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    3BC3—119 to 155 centimeters (46.9 to 61.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; 20 percent clay; weak coarse platy structure; friable; 10 percent medium distinct cylindrical noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions with clear boundaries on vertical faces of peds and 20 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; clear irregular boundary.
    3Ab—155 to 178 centimeters (61.0 to 70.1 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) fine sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; coarse distinct irregular noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout and 25 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.
    3Bg—178 to 205 centimeters (70.1 to 80.7 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) fine sandy loam; 20 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 15 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 20 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2) iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout; fragments.