IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frederick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 88MD043001B
  • User Pedon ID: 88MD043001B
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0500
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60618
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 39.7044167
  • Std. Longitude: -78.0225694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Satelite B of WEPP study. Lane 3 30 feet from top
  • Map Unit: FyC2—
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD043—Washington
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Frederick
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1992
  • Classifier - JB
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - fifth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frederick
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/26/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—33

    45—

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    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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    228

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    270

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    Ap1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face gravelly silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (7.0) fine roots; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-15-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face gravelly silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (7.0) fine roots; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-15-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BE—33 to 45 centimeters (13.0 to 17.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silt loam; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (3.0) fine roots; 12 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-15-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt—45 to 63 centimeters (17.7 to 24.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (0.9) fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-160-210 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and 11 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-15-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method.; observed in pit, small