IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03PA071002
  • User Pedon ID: 03PA071002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0254
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17418
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 39.8597221
  • Std. Longitude: -76.3002777
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lancaster County, PA, Martic Township, Cedar Meadow Farm owned by Steve Groff; about 1000 feet North of Drytown Road, about 700 feet Northeast of driveway entering from Drytown Road in cropfield. (near Steve Groff's parents farm)
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA071—Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-G3—Holtwood, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: EAW, VMM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chester
  • PSC - 29 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chester
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: albite-chlorite residuum weathered from schist
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderate weathered schist, unspecified with <10
  • Geology: Octoraro formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 42
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—29

    29—124

    215—

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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

    2

    305

    48

    256

    —

    225

    1219

    —

    —

    10

    —

    —

    10.6

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    —

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 20 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low toughness; rapid permeability; 0.1 very fine roots between peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01130; moist when described; observed in trench. Surface stone count of the Ap to a depth of 6 inches: of the 13 lbs collected for study, 0.5 lbs were of 3/4 to 3 inches and 3.1 lbs were of 3/4 to 1/4 inches.
    Ap2—10 to 29 centimeters (3.9 to 11.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 20 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low toughness; rapid permeability; 0.1 very fine roots between peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01131; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt1—29 to 50 centimeters (11.4 to 19.7 inches); 70 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; 20 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 29 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; low toughness; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks and 0.5 medium roots in cracks; 0.8 coarse moderate-continuity tubular pores; 4 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01132; moist when described; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 260725; patchy - phpvsfiid 260725
    Bt2—50 to 97 centimeters (19.7 to 38.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low toughness; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots in cracks; 1.0 medium moderate-continuity irregular pores; 10 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01133; moist when described; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 260724; patchy - phpvsfiid 260724
    Bt3—97 to 124 centimeters (38.2 to 48.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior very channery clay loam; 30 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate very coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low toughness; moderate permeability; 0.1 very fine roots around fragments; 0.5 very fine low-continuity vesicular pores; 15 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N01134; moist when described; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 260723; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 260723
    2Btb1—124 to 163 centimeters (48.8 to 64.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) interior channery clay loam; 50 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; medium toughness; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine low-continuity vesicular pores; 5 percent faint red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent medium platy noncoherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, manganese coatings throughout; 15 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N01135; moist when described; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 260722; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 260722
    2Btb2—163 to 200 centimeters (64.2 to 78.7 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior channery sandy clay loam; 65 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 28 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; medium toughness; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine low-continuity vesicular pores; 5 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 5 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N01136; moist when described; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 260721; continuous - phpvsfiid 260720; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 260721; continuous - phpvsfiid 260720
    2C—200 to 215 centimeters (78.7 to 84.6 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior extremely channery sandy loam; moderate thick platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; medium toughness; moderate permeability; 70 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 04N01137; moist when described; observed in trench
    R—215 centimeters (84.6 inches); bedrock; friable; schist, unspecified fragments.; moist when described; observed in trench