IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kentuck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984MD019007
  • User Pedon ID: 84MD019007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55737
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 38.4749985
  • Std. Longitude: -76.1333313
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 mi S of Church Creek on Rt. 335; 1600 feet NW of fire tower.
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD019—Dorchester

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Umbraquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kentuck
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bayboro V
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Setting and Climate
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    1Ap—0 to 27 centimeters (0.0 to 10.6 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior and black (10YR 2/1) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silt loam; 13 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots and 5.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and 2.5 medium interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P00109. many coarse roots; common fine roots
    1BE—27 to 41 centimeters (10.6 to 16.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) interior silt loam; 25 percent clay; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine and medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P00110; moist when described;. few to common very fine and fine roots; common fine and medium prominent 7.5YR58 mottles
    1Btg—41 to 71 centimeters (16.1 to 28.0 inches); gray (N 5/0) interior and light olive gray (5Y 6/2) interior silty clay; 42 percent clay; 11 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) medium and coarse distinct and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 1.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 55 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P00111; moist when described;. Prisms in Btg, also for better drainage.; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; many very fine and fine roots; common medium roots; many medium prominent 7.5YR58 mottles; common medium and coarse distinct 2.5Y82 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 217953; patchy - phpvsfiid 217953
    2BC—71 to 84 centimeters (28.0 to 33.1 inches); gray (N 5/0) interior clay loam; 34 percent clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium prominent and 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) medium prominent mottles; massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 37 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P00112; moist when described;. Some prismatic structure possible, pick up of fine sand.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots; few fine and medium roots; common medium prominent 2.5Y56 mottles; few medium prominent 10YR58 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 217954; patchy - phpvsfiid 217954
    3Cg—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior sand; 1 percent clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) coarse prominent mottles; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P00113; moist when described;. few coarse prominent 10YR58 mottles
    3C—112 to 117 centimeters (44.1 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior gravelly sand; 3 percent clay; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments.; moist when described;. Not sampled; 10% gravel
    4C—117 to 127 centimeters (46.1 to 50.0 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Stopped by water table in pit; not sampled.