IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fort Mott
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994MD003016
  • User Pedon ID: S1994MD003016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0266
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67284
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 38.9447972
  • Std. Longitude: -76.6775528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Davidsonville
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD003—Anne Arundel
  • MLRA: 149A—Northern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD003—Anne Arundel County, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carl Robinette, David Verdone
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, semiactive, nonacid, mesic Arenic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fort Mott
  • PSC - 53 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/29/2013
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fort Mott
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • Field Measured Properties: 101.6 cm of Depth of solum and 101.6 cm of Depth to mottles and 10 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 4 percent of Soil slope(%)


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 25
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    0—53

    53—84

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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

    4

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    29

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loamy sand; weak medium platy parts to weak coarse angular blocky structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine and fine roots; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P01740
    BE—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loamy sand; weak thin platy, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 1 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01741
    Bt—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 3 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01742
    BC—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 3 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01743
    CB—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P01744
    C1—127 to 178 centimeters (50.0 to 70.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sand; weak coarse platy structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P01745. colors are banded; platy structure is inherited from parent material
    C2—178 to 241 centimeters (70.1 to 94.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) loamy sand; massive; very friable; 3 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 95P01746
    C3—241 to 292 centimeters (94.9 to 115.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) sand; massive; very friable; 1 percent fine yellowish red (5YR 4/6) iron-manganese masses and 25 percent coarse yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent coarse grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions; 3 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 95P01747
    C4—292 to 307 centimeters (115.0 to 120.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) sand; massive; very friable; 1 percent fine yellowish red (5YR 4/6) iron-manganese masses and 10 percent coarse yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent fine platy mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 95P01748