IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hammonton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012MD045003
  • User Pedon ID: S2012MD045003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012MD045003
  • User Site Association ID: 3-HAM Benchmark Sampling MLRA Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0565
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73083
  • 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: 38.4146389
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7319472
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - PDOP: 4
  • Location Description: In a wooded site in Hebron 1,325 feet north off of Rewastico Road, 608 feet north of a power line, and 43 feet east of a dirt road that accesses Bruce Nichols home residence.
  • 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: Phil King, Susan Demas, 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 - 45 to 95 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/2013
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh 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
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: broad interstream divide
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • 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 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 20
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ILOP

    LIST2

    LITU

    PITA

    PRSE2

    QUFA

    QUNI

    SAAL5

    Ilex opaca

    Liquidambar styraciflua

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Pinus taeda

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus falcata

    Quercus nigra

    Sassafras albidum

    American holly

    sweetgum

    tuliptree

    loblolly pine

    black cherry

    southern red oak

    water oak

    sassafras

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    overstory

    overstory

    overstory

    overstory

    overstory

    overstory

    overstory

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

    ochric epipedon

    fibric soil materials

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    aquic conditions

    0—21

    0—1

    45—140

    57—71

    71—92

    92—140

    140—206

    156—206

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    0.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    45

    1160

    —

    249

    14.2

    24.2

    2.4

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    MD8000

    SALISBURY

    WETS
    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; many very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 13N02678; observed in pit, small
    AE—10 to 21 centimeters (3.9 to 8.3 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; many very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; common very fine low-continuity vesicular pores; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 13N02679; observed in pit, small
    BE—21 to 45 centimeters (8.3 to 17.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots throughout and few medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; many very fine low-continuity vesicular pores; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02680; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—45 to 57 centimeters (17.7 to 22.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout; many very fine low-continuity vesicular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02681; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—57 to 71 centimeters (22.4 to 28.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; many very fine low-continuity vesicular pores; 5 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout and 10 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02682; observed in pit, small
    Btg1—71 to 92 centimeters (28.0 to 36.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; common medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; common very fine low-continuity vesicular pores; 10 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 10 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02683; observed in pit, small
    Btg2—92 to 140 centimeters (36.2 to 55.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few medium roots throughout; common very fine low-continuity vesicular pores; 28 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02684; observed in pit, small
    C—140 to 156 centimeters (55.1 to 61.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) loamy sand; structureless massive; firm; 3 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 7 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 8 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout and 8 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02685; observed in pit, small
    2Cg—156 to 174 centimeters (61.4 to 68.5 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) loam; structureless massive; friable; 8 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 30 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02686; observed in auger, bucket
    3Cg—174 to 206 centimeters (68.5 to 81.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) sand; structureless single grain; loose; 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 13N02687; observed in auger, bucket