IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Evesboro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012MD045001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012MD045001
  • User Site Association ID: 3-HAM Benchmark Sampling MLRA Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0563
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72877
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 38.3757944
  • Std. Longitude: -75.8088778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - PDOP: 2
  • Location Description: Nanticoke Wildlife Management Area, Nutters Neck on Cherrywalk Road, Quantico, MD in Wicomico County, MD. Latitude 38 degrees 22 minutes 32.86 seconds North and Longitude 75 degrees 48 minutes 31.96 seconds West.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maryland
  • County: MD045—Wicomico
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MD045—Wicomico County, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38075-D7—Mardela Springs, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Brewer, Susan Demas, Phil King, and Rob Tunstead
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Lamellic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Evesboro
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/2013
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Evesboro
  • Taxonomic Class - Mesic, coated Lamellic Quartzipsamments
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/12/2012
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: dune
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/3/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 19
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    lamellae

    0—21

    113—220

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    Pedon Horizon Bulk Density
    Horizon Depth to Top Depth to Bottom Method Data Collector Field Moist Volume Field Moist Sample Wt. Air Dry Sample Wt. Field Moist Co. Fragment Wt. Air Dry Fragment Wt. Fragment Density Coarse Fragment Volume Air Dry Subsample Wt. Oven Dry Subsample Wt. Grav Soil Moist % Whole Soil Grav Soil Moist % Fine Earth Bulk Density FM Fine Soil Bulk Density FM Whole Soill Bulk Density OD fINE Earth Bulk Density OD Fine Earth Bulk Density Satiated
    cm cm3 g g/cm3 cm3 g % g/cm3

    Ap

    EB

    E1

    E2

    E and Bt

    0

    21

    30

    52

    113

    21

    30

    52

    113

    220

    core, constant volume

    core, constant volume

    core, constant volume

    core, constant volume

    core, constant volume

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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

    2

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    90

    1161

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    249

    14.2

    24.2

    2.4

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    MD8000

    SALISBURY

    WETS
    Ap—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; many (10.0) fine low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02666; observed in pit, small
    EB—21 to 30 centimeters (8.3 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (10.0) very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02667; observed in pit, small
    E1—30 to 52 centimeters (11.8 to 20.5 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 8 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02668; observed in pit, small
    E2—52 to 113 centimeters (20.5 to 44.5 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few medium roots throughout; many very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 13N02669; observed in pit, small
    E and Bt—113 to 220 centimeters (44.5 to 86.6 inches); 95 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) and 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 80 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films; fragments.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1060936; continuous - phpvsfiid 1060936