IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leipsic
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995DE003008
  • User Pedon ID: S1995DE003008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0549
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67567
  • 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: 39.3797226
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5263901
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Southside of County Road 493 near bend, 350 feet into field. 1500 feet southwest of Collins Beach Boat Ramp. Taylor's Bridge Quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: LfB—Leipsic-Reybold complex, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Delaware
  • County: DE003—New Castle
  • MLRA: 153C—Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: DE003—New Castle County, Delaware
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39075-D5—Taylors Bridge, Delaware

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mary Ann Levan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic 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
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leipsic
  • PSC - 30 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/9/2015
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mattapex
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Aquic Hapludults
  • PSC - 30 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/31/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: alluvial flat
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/31/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 16-46
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    30—71

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    Setting and Climate
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    ; fragments. Lab sample # 95P04161. Particle size control section.
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 95P04153
    AB—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 95P04154
    Bt1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 95P04155. continuous - phpvsfiid 1351459; continuous - phpvsfiid 1351459
    Bt2—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine cylindrical masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent fine and medium masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 95P04156
    BC—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 3 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) medium distinct mottles; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3 percent fine and medium masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 95P04157
    C1—91 to 119 centimeters (35.8 to 46.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium and coarse distinct mottles; slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 95P04158
    C2—119 to 177 centimeters (46.9 to 69.7 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) silt loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium and coarse distinct mottles; slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3 percent medium masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent medium iron-manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # 95P04159
    C3—177 to 203 centimeters (69.7 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) silt loam; 21 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) faint mottles; nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent fine and medium masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 95P04160