IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elkton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984MD019008
  • User Pedon ID: S1984MD019008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0018
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55738
  • 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: 38.5042889
  • Std. Longitude: -76.1746639
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD019—Dorchester
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD019—Dorchester County, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Albaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elkton
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/12/2015
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Othello
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Ochraquult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding
  • 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 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    0—132

    23—76

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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

    0

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    0.8

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) interior silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P00114; dry when described;. few to common very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    Btg1—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; 1 percent gray (10YR 5/1) medium faint and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent prominent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P00115; moist when described;. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few to common very fine and fine roots; common medium prominent 7.5YR58 mottles; few medium faint 10YR51 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351352; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351352
    Btg2—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior silt loam; 31 percent clay; 1 percent gray (10YR 5/1) medium faint and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P00116; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots; common medium prominent 7.5YR58 mottles; few medium faint 10YR51 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351353; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351353
    2BCg—76 to 94 centimeters (29.9 to 37.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior loam; 30 percent clay; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; massive; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P00117; moist when described;. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots; common medium prominent 7.5YR58 mottles
    3Cg1—94 to 132 centimeters (37.0 to 52.0 inches); dark gray (5YR 4/1) interior fine sandy loam; 6 percent clay; 1 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) coarse distinct and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) coarse prominent and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coarse distinct mottles; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P00118; moist when described;. few coarse distinct 2.5Y62 mottles; common coarse prominent 7.5YR58 mottles; many coarse distinct 10YR56 mottles
    4Cg2—132 to 142 centimeters (52.0 to 55.9 inches); clay, unknown texture; fragments. Stopped by water table; marine blue clays at 6'; not sampled.