IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lindside
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019MD021030
  • User Pedon ID: S2019MD021030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0356
  • User Project ID: 20-21fre
  • Project Name: MLRA 148 - Potomac River Legacy Sediments and Phosphorus Project
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 39.3106278
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6328639
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a wooded area, about 0.3 miles southwest of Brunswick, north of the Potomac River, in Frederick County, Maryland
  • Map Unit: LsA—Lindside silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • 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-C6—Harpers Ferry, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ben J. Marshall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: gneiss
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/15/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Ben Marshall
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 16
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    0—15

    15—127

    91—127

    —15—

    —112—

    —36—
    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

    —

    —

    70

    —

    177

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 13 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; 5 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw1—15 to 48 centimeters (5.9 to 18.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; 17 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; 5 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw2—48 to 91 centimeters (18.9 to 35.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw3—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) silt loam; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Ab—127 to 161 centimeters (50.0 to 63.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 5 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C—161 to 200 centimeters (63.4 to 78.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; 7 percent clay; 5 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket