RhodeRiver, a subestuary on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay, contains a diverse array of subaqueous soils that range from submerged paleosols to fine-textured fluid soils and organic soils. A subaqueous soil survey was completed for the Rhode River subestuary by collecting bathymetric data, delineating landforms, and sampling and describing soils across the submerged landscape. Soil map units were developed by correlating soil properties and taxonomic classification with delineated landforms, resulting in the development of seven proposed soil series corresponding to new soil map units. Geologic maps and other supporting information about the dominant factors of soil formation in this landscape were used with the soil survey of Rhode River to develop a conceptual subaqueous soil-landscape model of soil genesis to explain the origin and distribution of soils in Rhode River. This is the first time that a subaqueous soil-landscape model has been developed for the flooded river valley geomorphic setting of Chesapeake Bay, and it will assist subaqueous soil surveys in other western shore Chesapeake Bay subestuaries and similar environmental settings where upland environments have been or are currently submerging.

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指导切萨皮克湾亚河口土壤调查的水下土壤-景观概念模型

RhodeRiver 是切萨皮克湾西岸的一个亚河口，包含各种不同的水下土壤，从淹没的古土壤到质地细腻的流体土壤和有机土壤。通过收集水深数据、描绘地形以及对整个水下景观的土壤进行采样和描述，完成了罗德河亚河口的水下土壤调查。土壤图单元是通过将土壤特性和分类学分类与划定的地貌相关联而开发的，从而开发了与新土壤图单元相对应的七个拟议土壤系列。该景观中土壤形成的主要因素的地质图和其他支持信息与罗德河的土壤调查一起使用，以开发土壤发生的概念性水下土壤-景观模型，以解释罗德河土壤的起源和分布。这是第一次为切萨皮克湾淹没的河谷地貌环境开发水下土壤-景观模型，它将有助于切萨皮克湾其他西岸的水下土壤调查以及类似的高地环境已经或目前正在下沉。