IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nassawango
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MD041023
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MD041023
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000MD041023
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01P0057
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12948
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024
  • 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: 38.7057991
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0294571
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.1 miles east and slightly south of Ivytown, 100 feet north of Lloyd's Landing Road.
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD041—Talbot
  • MLRA: 153C—Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD041—Talbot County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38076-F1—Trappe, Maryland
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Brewer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 23
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nassawango
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/19/2014
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nassawango
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/2000
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Beaverdam formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37
  • 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
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—38

    38—142

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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

    19.8

    Ap1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P00255
    Ap2—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P00256
    Bt1—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00257
    Bt2—51 to 84 centimeters (20.1 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silt loam; coarse subangular blocky, and strong medium, and weak coarse prismatic structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 75 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00258
    Bt3—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak thick platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 75 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 30 percent fine irregular reddish brown (5YR 4/4) iron-manganese masses throughout and 30 percent medium faint irregular light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) iron depletions throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P00259
    BCt1—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak thick platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 30 percent fine prominent irregular yellowish red (5YR 4/6) iron-manganese masses throughout and 30 percent medium faint irregular light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00260
    2BCt2—127 to 142 centimeters (50.0 to 55.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) sandy loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine prominent irregular yellowish red (5YR 4/6) iron-manganese masses throughout and 30 percent medium faint irregular light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P00261
    2BC—142 to 168 centimeters (55.9 to 66.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; massive; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; medium irregular iron-manganese masses throughout and 30 percent coarse and 30 percent fine ; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P00262
    2C—168 to 183 centimeters (66.1 to 72.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loamy sand; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; coarse prominent irregular white (10YR 8/1) clay depletions throughout and 30 percent medium and 30 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) iron-manganese masses and 30 percent medium irregular iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 01P00263