IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Quindocqua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012MD035003
  • User Pedon ID: S2012MD035003
  • User Site Association ID: 2013 NCSS Nat. Conf.(Delmarva Peninsula Tour)
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0837
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51963
  • 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: 38.9274000
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2024667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD035—Queen Anne's
  • MLRA: 153C—Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD035—Queen Anne's County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38076-H2—Queenstown, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Diane Shields and Marty Rabenhorst
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Endoaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Quindocqua
  • Classificaton Date - 3/11/2016
  • Classifier - Suasn Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Carmichael
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Endoaquults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/6/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty eolian deposits over sandy fluviomarine deposits over marine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: broad interstream divide
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/2/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—260

    0—22

    22—50

    32—50

    50—200

    200—260

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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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    1.5

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    Ap1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; nonfluid; 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments.
    Ap2—4 to 22 centimeters (1.6 to 8.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; moderate coarse platy structure; friable; nonfluid; 15 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments.
    BEg—22 to 32 centimeters (8.7 to 12.6 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; nonfluid; 5 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout and 20 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments.
    Btg—32 to 50 centimeters (12.6 to 19.7 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; nonfluid; 10 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1) iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout and 25 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments.
    2BC—50 to 90 centimeters (19.7 to 35.4 inches); 55 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and 40 percent gray (2.5Y 5/1) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; nonfluid; 5 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments.
    2BCg—90 to 110 centimeters (35.4 to 43.3 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; nonfluid; 5 percent medium distinct pendular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries along lamina or strata surfaces and 20 percent medium faint platy noncoherent cemented gray (2.5Y 6/1) iron depletions with clear boundaries along lamina or strata surfaces; 2 percent by volume rounded 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments.
    2Cg—110 to 200 centimeters (43.3 to 78.7 inches); 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 30 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) stratified stratified fine sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; very friable; nonfluid; fragments.
    3Cseg—200 to 260 centimeters (78.7 to 102.4 inches); N 3/1 (N 3/1) silty clay loam; structureless massive; firm; slightly fluid; fragments.