IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fox Creek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015MD003055
  • User Pedon ID: S2015MD003055
  • 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: 38.8826610
  • Std. Longitude: -76.5185419
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In the Rhode River and approximately 1,361 feet west northeast of Locust Point and approimately 2,460 feet south southeast of the location where Carrs Wharf Road dead ends into the Rhode River and approximately 2,187 feet northwest of the intersection of Cliff Drive and Cherrystone Drive in Beverly Beach, Maryland.
  • 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: Euic, mesic Sapric Haplowassists
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • 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 - 140
  • SAS Pipe Length Unfilled - 191
  • SAS Core Settlement - 51
  • SAS Core Length - 127
  • SAS Exposure Begin - 1/15/2016
  • SAS Exposure End - 1/15/2017


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: submerged wave-cut platform herbaceous organic material over lagoon bottom coarse-loamy estuarine deposits over submerged wave-cut platform herbaceous organic material
  • Landscape: estuary on coastal plain
  • Landform: submerged wave-cut platform
  • 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: 8/17/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Barret Wessel
  • Surface Water Kind: permanent
  • Surface Water Depth: 143
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - water cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Oe

    Oase1

    Oase2

    3Oase

    6

    49

    73

    121

    49

    73

    103

    127

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    80

    80

    7

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Oe

    Oase1

    Oase2

    3Oase

    6

    49

    73

    121

    49

    73

    103

    127

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Oe

    Oase1

    Oase2

    3Oase

    6

    49

    73

    121

    49

    73

    103

    127

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

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

    hemic soil materials

    sapric soil materials

    sulfidic materials

    sapric soil materials

    0—127

    0—103

    6—49

    49—103

    103—121

    121—127

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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

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    -1.4

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    1065

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    225

    13.1

    24

    2.1

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    BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON INTL AP, MD

    WETS
    Ase—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); dark greenish gray (10Y 3/1) sand; nonfluid; 2 percent by volume flat shell fragments fragments; none odor; reduced monosulfides present; very slight effervescence; abrupt boundary.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Oe—6 to 49 centimeters (2.4 to 19.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) mucky peat; fragments; none odor; noneffervescent; gradual boundary.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Oase1—49 to 73 centimeters (19.3 to 28.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) muck; fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; noneffervescent; gradual boundary.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Oase2—73 to 103 centimeters (28.7 to 40.6 inches); black (10YR 2/1) muck; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; noneffervescent; abrupt boundary.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    2Cseg—103 to 121 centimeters (40.6 to 47.6 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) fine sandy loam; nonfluid; fragments; none odor; very slight effervescence; very abrupt boundary.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    3Oase—121 to 127 centimeters (47.6 to 50.0 inches); black (N 2.5/), muck; fragments; slight petrochemical odor; noneffervescent.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube. Slight petrochemical odor when rubbed.