IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Contees Wharf
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015MD003063
  • User Pedon ID: S2015MD003063
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 38.8910710
  • Std. Longitude: -76.5331880
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In the Rhode River and located in the Sellman Creek and approximately 2,471 feet northeast of the dock at SERC located at the end of Contees Wharf Road and approximately 1,453 feet northwest of the basketball court located at Camp Letts at the dead end of Camp Letts Road and approximately 2,284 feet northwest of the western corner of the building located at Rhode River Marina.
  • 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-silty, glauconitic, nonacid, mesic Sulfic Hydrowassents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Contees Wharf (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, glauconitic, nonacid, mesic Sulfic Hydrowassents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/2018
  • Classifier - Barret Wessel
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - thirteenth 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 - 267
  • SAS Pipe Length Unfilled - 354
  • SAS Core Settlement - 87
  • SAS Core Length - 268
  • SAS Exposure Begin - 1/20/2016
  • SAS Exposure End - 1/20/2016


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: estuarine tidal stream lagoon bottom fine-silty estuarine 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: 8/19/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Barret Wessel
  • Surface Water Kind: permanent
  • Surface Water Depth: 204
  • 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

    n value > 0.7

    sulfidic materials

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

    0—268

    0—268

    0—268

    0—79

    —268—

    —268—

    —268—

    —79—
    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

    —

    1065

    —

    225

    13.1

    24

    2.1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON INTL AP, MD

    WETS
    Ase1—0 to 50 centimeters (0.0 to 19.7 inches); greenish black (10Y 2.5/1) silty clay loam; very fluid; 2 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; none odor; reduced monosulfides present; strong effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, 3-4%; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; gradual boundary.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Ase2—50 to 79 centimeters (19.7 to 31.1 inches); greenish black (10Y 2.5/1) silty clay loam; very fluid; 2 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; none odor; reduced monosulfides present; strong effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, 3-4%; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; gradual boundary.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cse1—79 to 126 centimeters (31.1 to 49.6 inches); dark greenish gray (10Y 3/1) silty clay; moderately fluid; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; none odor; reduced monosulfides present; strong effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5; gradual boundary.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cse2—126 to 200 centimeters (49.6 to 78.7 inches); dark greenish gray (10Y 3/1) silty clay; moderately fluid; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; none odor; reduced monosulfides present; strong effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5; diffuse boundary.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cse3—200 to 214 centimeters (78.7 to 84.3 inches); dark greenish gray (10Y 3/1) silty clay loam; moderately fluid; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; none odor; reduced monosulfides present; slight effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5; diffuse boundary.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cse4—214 to 268 centimeters (84.3 to 105.5 inches); dark greenish gray (10Y 3/1) silty clay; moderately fluid; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; none odor; reduced monosulfides present; strong effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4.; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube