IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rhode River
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015MD003042
  • User Pedon ID: S2015MD003042
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 38.8900110
  • Std. Longitude: -76.5365630
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In the Rhode River located in Sheephead Cove and approximately 1,514 feet northeast from the dock at SERC at the end of Contees Wharf Road and 1,279 feet northwest of the northern most bank of Flat Island and approximately 1,510 feet north of the northern most tip of Big Island.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD003—Anne Arundel
  • MLRA: 149A—Northern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD003—Anne Arundel County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38076-H5—South River, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Barret Wessel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, glauconitic, nonacid, mesic Typic Haplowassents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rhode River
  • PSC - 0 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/12/2016
  • Classifier - Barret Wessel
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • Subaqueous Soils Information:
  • SAS Pipe Length External - 82
  • SAS Pipe Length Unfilled - 88
  • SAS Core Settlement - 6
  • SAS Core Length - 68
  • SAS Exposure Begin - 1/12/2016
  • SAS Exposure End - 1/12/2016


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: submerged wave cut platform sandy lagoonal deposits over paleo terrestrial fine-loamy fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: estuary on coastal plain
  • Landform: estuarine tidal stream
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: subaqueous
  • Flooding: very frequent flooding for very long periods
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 365
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Barret Wessel
  • Surface Water Kind: permanent
  • Surface Water Depth: 135
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - water cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—19

    0—68

    19—68

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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

    —

    —

    —

    -1.4

    —

    1065

    —

    225

    13.1

    24

    2.1

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    —

    —

    —

    —

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    BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON INTL AP, MD

    WETS
    Ase—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); greenish black (5GY 2.5/1) sand; nonfluid; fragments; none odor; slight effervescence; clear boundary.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    2Btse1—19 to 38 centimeters (7.5 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish olive (10Y 3/2) sandy clay loam; moderately fluid; 3 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, ferromagnesian minerals; fragments; none odor; reduced monosulfides present; strong effervescence; gradual boundary.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    2Btse2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); dark greenish gray (10GY 3/1) sandy clay loam; slightly fluid; 10 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, ferromagnesian minerals; fragments; none odor; strong effervescence; clear boundary.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    2Btse3—58 to 68 centimeters (22.8 to 26.8 inches); dark greenish gray (10GY 3/1) sandy clay; nonfluid; 30 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, ferromagnesian minerals; fragments; none odor; violent effervescence.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube