IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frederick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MD043001D
  • User Pedon ID: 88MD043001D
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0502
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60620
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 39.7040361
  • Std. Longitude: -78.0224944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lane 1, 90 feet below top edge (side C).
  • Map Unit: FyC2—
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD043—Washington
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Frederick
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1992
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - fifth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frederick
  • 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: 4/26/1988 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—41

    53—

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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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    Ap1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior gravelly silt loam; 21 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine roots; , 25 percent by weight nonflat angular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P2578. many fine roots
    Ap2—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior gravelly silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; , 17 percent by weight nonflat angular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P2579. 3% intrusions of Bt material.; common fine roots
    Bt1—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) interior clay; 60 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 55 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; , 2 percent by weight nonflat angular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P2580. 2% fine chert gravel.; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots
    Bt2—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior and 2 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, dry; clay; 60 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; , 2 percent by weight nonflat angular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method. few fine roots