IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Allenwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1957PA025002
  • User Pedon ID: 1957PA025002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 141
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA025002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43484
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 40.8480556
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5966667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Carbon Co, PA; along Rt 13016, 3/4 mi S of Rt 209, 60' W of edge of Rd at pt. 30" N of power pole No. 5.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA025—Carbon
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA025—Carbon County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-G5—Palmerton, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F.G. Loughry, W.J. Steputis, G.V. Fisher, R.P. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Allenwood
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allenwood
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/1957 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MESA

    Medicago sativa

    alfalfa

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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

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    304

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    225

    1150

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    9.5

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01026. "About 15% gravels up to 5x3x1""; thickness ranges from 8-10""."
    BA—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01027. "About 15% gravels; thickness ranges from 5-7""."; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531956; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531956
    Bt1—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior and reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) interior gravelly silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01028. "15% gravel up to 5x3x1""; thickness ranges from 5-9""."; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531957; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531957
    Bt2—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) interior gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01029. "25% gravel up to 5x3x1""; thickness ranges from 4-8""."; continuous - phpvsfiid 531958; continuous - phpvsfiid 531958
    Bt3—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) interior and red (2.5YR 5/8) interior gravelly silty clay; moderate medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; prominent clay films on all faces of peds and prominent manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; 35 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01030. "35% gravels and cobbles up to 10x6x2""; thickness ranges from 3-10""."; continuous - phpvsfiid 531959; continuous - phpvsfiid 531959
    BC—91 to 104 centimeters (35.8 to 40.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) interior gravelly clay; weak and moderate medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; prominent clay films; 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU01031. "About 40% gravels and cobbles; thickness ranges from 0-10""."; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531961; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531961
    C1—104 to 132 centimeters (40.9 to 52.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior gravelly clay, channery clay; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01032. Olive brown fragments of siltstone; similar material continues below the depth sampled.