IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lindside
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019MD031025
  • User Pedon ID: S2019MD031025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0351
  • 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: 39.1408333
  • Std. Longitude: -77.5166472
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a wooded area, about 6.2 miles west/southwest of Beallsvillle, near Whites Ferry, on the Maryland side, in Montgomery County, Maryland
  • Map Unit: 47A—Lindside silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD031—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD031—Montgomery County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39077-B5—Waterford, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ben J. Marshall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Fluventic 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: sandstone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/2019 (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 - 21
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    argillic horizon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    0—8

    8—51

    67—118

    135—200

    135—200

    135—200

    —8—

    —43—

    —51—

    —65—

    —65—

    —65—
    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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    —

    60

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    250

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; 20 percent clay; massive; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw—8 to 51 centimeters (3.1 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 20 percent clay; massive; faint clay bridges; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C—51 to 67 centimeters (20.1 to 26.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sand; 98 percent sand; 2 percent clay; massive; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt1—67 to 118 centimeters (26.4 to 46.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C'—118 to 135 centimeters (46.5 to 53.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sand; 98 percent sand; 2 percent clay; massive; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt2—135 to 178 centimeters (53.1 to 70.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt3—178 to 200 centimeters (70.1 to 78.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt loam; 25 percent clay; massive; 5 percent faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, manganese masses and 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket