IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lindside
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020MD031041
  • User Pedon ID: S2020MD031041
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 21N0212
  • 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: 39.0351810
  • Std. Longitude: -77.2627090
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a wooded area, about 2.3 miles south/southeast of Travilah, 0.7 miles south of River Road (MD State Highway 190), on Watkins Island in the Potomac River, on the Island 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-A3—Seneca, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ben J. Marshall
  • 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 metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: schist, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/27/2020 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Ben J. 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 - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 21
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—30

    30—200

    30—200

    30—200

    62—200

    —30—

    —170—

    —170—

    —170—

    —138—
    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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    —

    53

    —

    189

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; 14 percent clay; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    AB—5 to 30 centimeters (2.0 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; 15 percent clay; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw1—30 to 62 centimeters (11.8 to 24.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 22 percent clay; 5 percent iron-manganese nodules; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw2—62 to 92 centimeters (24.4 to 36.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; 5 percent iron-manganese nodules and 5 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions on surfaces along root channels; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    BC1—92 to 140 centimeters (36.2 to 55.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; 5 percent iron-manganese nodules and 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, and brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, iron depletions on surfaces along root channels; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    BC2—140 to 200 centimeters (55.1 to 78.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; 15 percent iron-manganese nodules and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions on faces of peds; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket