IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lithic Hapludalfs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001PA029004 - Nottingham County Park Progress Field Review
  • User Pedon ID: 01PA029004
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Transect Interval - 150.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0862
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13404
  • Print Date: 3/13/2025

    • 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: 39.7338905
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0325012
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Chester County, PA; West Nottingham Township, Nottingham County Park. 300 feet NW from Nottingham Drive, 30 feet NE of Doe Trail in prescribed burn area.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA029—Chester
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA029—Chester County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Chibirka, Dave Kingsbury, Diane Shields
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, superactive, mesic Lithic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lithic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 10 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/2002
  • Classifier - MS
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lithic Hapludalfs
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, active, mesic Lithic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxon above family
  • Classificaton Date - 5/10/2001
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Serpentine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent moderate weathered serpentinite with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented 10- to 30-millimeter serpentinite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/10/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    23 - 24

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—23

    10—23

    23—24

    10—23—28

    5—18—25

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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

    11

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    140

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    315

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed, dry; slightly decomposed plant material; rapid permeability; 20.0 fine roots top of horizon; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04633; observed in pit, small
    A—1 to 10 centimeters (0.4 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, dry; silt loam; 15 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 25.0 medium roots throughout; 8 percent by volume flat angular serpentinite fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04634; observed in pit, small
    Bt—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume flat angular serpentinite fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04635; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 205669; patchy - phpvsfiid 205669
    R—23 centimeters (9.1 inches);, olive (5Y 4/4) broken face, dry; very slow permeability; 1 percent prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 99 percent by volume flat angular serpentinite fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 205670; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 205670