IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Opequon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MD001001C
  • User Pedon ID: 88MD001001C
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0507
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60625
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Lane 2, 90 feet from top (side C).
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD001—Allegany

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Opequon
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

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    1Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silt loam; strong fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02599. Few inclusions of Bt1 material.; common fine and medium roots
    1Ap2—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02600. Few to common inclusions of Bt material.; many fine roots; few coarse roots
    1Bt—33 to 50 centimeters (13.0 to 19.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 55 percent prominent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments. Lab sample # 88P02601. many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common fine roots; few coarse roots