IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Evesboro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011DE005003
  • User Pedon ID: S2011DE005003
  • User Site Association ID: 3-HAM Benchmark Sampling MLRA Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N0023
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47529
  • 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: 38.5484056
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6837000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sussex County, DE; private property on Nanticoke Rover; Williams Property.
  • Map Unit: EvD—Evesboro loamy sand, 5 to 15 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Delaware
  • County: DE005—Sussex
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: DE005—Sussex County, Delaware
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38075-F6—Seaford West, Delaware

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Phil King and Susan Demas
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic, uncoated Lamellic Quartzipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Evesboro
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2015
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Evesboro
  • Taxonomic Class - Mesic, coated Lamellic Quartzipsamments
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/5/2011
  • Classifier - Demas, King
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy eolian deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: ancient dune
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Parsonsburg Sand formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat subrounded 2- to 5-millimeter quartzite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/5/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 17
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    lamellae

    0—87

    87—200

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    10/5/2011

    50

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    15
    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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    4

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; coarse sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 6.0 very fine roots and 6.0 fine roots; 7.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00098; observed in pit, small
    E1—14 to 34 centimeters (5.5 to 13.4 inches); coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots; 12.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent organic stains between sand grains; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00099; observed in pit, small
    E2—34 to 87 centimeters (13.4 to 34.3 inches); coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 15.0 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00100; observed in pit, small
    E/Bt1—87 to 125 centimeters (34.3 to 49.2 inches); coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; 6 percent lamellae (volume percent); strongly acid, pH 5.5, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00101; observed in pit, small
    E/Bt2—125 to 200 centimeters (49.2 to 78.7 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 12N00102; observed in auger, bucket