IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mt. Zion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016MD021001
  • User Pedon ID: S2016MD021001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0045
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87423
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 39.3193667
  • Std. Longitude: -77.3191944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a grassed area, Stream Terrace, approxiametely 225 from the nearest stream. Off of Big Woods road, near Urbana, MD. 2,168 feet NorthEast of the bridge on Big Woods Rd
  • Map Unit: LaB—Lantz-Rohrersville silt loams, 0 to 8 percent slopes, extremely stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD021—Frederick
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD021—Frederick County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39077-C3—Urbana, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ben Marshall, Dave Verdone, Lisa Dosmann, Denise Clearwater
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mt. Zion
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 19 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/8/2016
  • Classifier - Ben Marshall
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding for extremely brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/24/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Ben Marshall, Dave Verdone, Lisa Dosmann, Denise Clearwater
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    aquic conditions

    reduced matrix

    0—19

    19—110

    19—110

    50—110

    50—110

    86—110

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    —81—

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    —60—

    —60—

    —24—
    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

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    108

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    130

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    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face loam; 20 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many (13.0) very fine roots throughout; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N00242; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—19 to 33 centimeters (7.5 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (3.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) medium roots throughout and few (3.0) fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses throughout and 8 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N00243; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—33 to 50 centimeters (13.0 to 19.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) medium roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 7 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter quartz fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N00244; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—50 to 70 centimeters (19.7 to 27.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) coarse roots throughout; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 30 percent greenish gray (5GY 6/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter quartz fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N00245; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt4—70 to 86 centimeters (27.6 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face gravelly clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (2.0) very fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-120-250 millimeter quartz fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter quartz fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 17N00246; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg—86 to 110 centimeters (33.9 to 43.3 inches); greenish gray (10GY 6/1) broken face very gravelly clay loam; 28 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (2.0) very fine roots throughout; and 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-120-250 millimeter quartz fragments observed by visual inspection method and 50 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter quartz fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N00247; wet when described; observed in pit, small