IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lindside
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020MD021034
  • User Pedon ID: S2020MD021034
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 21N0206
  • 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: 39.2989664
  • Std. Longitude: -77.5573650
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a wooded area, about 1.9 miles northwest of Point of Rocks, 0.9 miles west of Point of Rocks Road (State Highway 464), and about 45 feet from the Potomac River, in Frederick County, Maryland
  • Map Unit: CnA—Combs 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-C5—Point of Rocks, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ben Marshall, Jason Martin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • 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: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: gneiss
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/9/2020 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Ben Marshall, Jason Martin
  • 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 - rain
  • Current Air Temp - 16
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—17

    17—56

    56—200

    105—200

    105—200

    120—200

    —17—

    —39—

    —144—

    —95—

    —95—

    —80—
    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

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    —

    50

    —

    266

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    A—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 15 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw1—17 to 35 centimeters (6.7 to 13.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw2—35 to 56 centimeters (13.8 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    2Ab—56 to 70 centimeters (22.0 to 27.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    2Bw—70 to 105 centimeters (27.6 to 41.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    2C1—105 to 120 centimeters (41.3 to 47.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 20 percent clay; structureless massive; 3 percent brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions lining pores and 10 percent red (7.5R 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron lining pores; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    3C2—120 to 170 centimeters (47.2 to 66.9 inches); 80 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; 14 percent clay; structureless massive; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions lining pores and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron lining pores; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    3C3—170 to 200 centimeters (66.9 to 78.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) silt loam; 16 percent clay; structureless massive; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron lining pores and 25 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions lining pores; fragments.; wet when described; observed in auger, bucket