IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hammonton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012MD045002
  • User Pedon ID: S2012MD045002
  • User Site Association ID: 3-HAM Benchmark Sampling MLRA Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0564
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72723
  • 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: 38.4163556
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7270500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - PDOP: 2
  • Location Description: In Wicomico County 1,171 feet north-northwest of entrance to Gregg Williams' farm off of County Road 433 (Rewastico Road)in Hebron, MD.
  • Map Unit: HnA—Hammonton sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • 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-D6—Hebron, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Susan Demas, Phil King, and Rob Tunstead
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • 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 - Hammonton
  • PSC - 25 to 52 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/2014
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hammonton
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/4/2012
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: broad interstream divide
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/4/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 13
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—25

    25—61

    90—130

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    —-

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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

    1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    280

    1160

    —

    249

    —

    —

    —

    14.2

    24.2

    2.4

    —

    —

    MD8000

    SALISBURY

    WETS
    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; many very fine roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; few very fine low-continuity vesicular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02671; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; many fine low-continuity vesicular and few coarse moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02672; observed in pit, small
    Bt—25 to 52 centimeters (9.8 to 20.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots throughout; few medium moderate-continuity tubular and many fine low-continuity vesicular pores; 20 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02673; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1060937; continuous - phpvsfiid 1060937
    BCt—52 to 61 centimeters (20.5 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; few medium roots throughout; common fine low-continuity vesicular pores; 3 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 12 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 12 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02674; observed in pit, small
    CB—61 to 90 centimeters (24.0 to 35.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; few medium low-continuity vesicular and common fine low-continuity vesicular pores; 20 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 25 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02675; observed in pit, small
    Cg—90 to 130 centimeters (35.4 to 51.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) sand; structureless single grain; loose; 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02676; observed in pit, small
    C—130 to 144 centimeters (51.2 to 56.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) sand; structureless single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 13N02677; observed in auger, bucket