IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Allenwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1957PA025007
  • User Pedon ID: 1957PA025007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 146
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA025007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43489
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 40.7950000
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7780556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4.5 mi W of Lehighton bridge near Sinclair gas station along Rt 43 120' S of highway, 40' W of E edge of farm
  • 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-G7—Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Matelski, C. Engle, G. Fisher
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Allenwood
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allenwood
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/1957 ()
  • 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

    5

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    180

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    180

    1150

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    9.9

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01049. "20% gravels up to 2"" in diameter; surface soil filling root channels and worm holes down to the B22 horizon; thickness ranges from 9 to 14"""
    BA—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01050. "20% gravels to 2"" in diameter; prominent tongues of surface soil; also a few white specks; thickness ranges from 2 to 5""."; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531963; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531963
    Bt1—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); light red (2.5YR 6/8) interior gravelly loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01051. "30% gravel to 2"" in diameter; fewer white and gray specks than adjacent horizons; thickness ranges from 3 to 5""."; continuous - phpvsfiid 531964; continuous - phpvsfiid 531964
    Bt2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); light red (2.5YR 6/8) interior and red (2.5YR 5/8) interior gravelly clay loam; moderate fine and medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01052. "30% gravels to 2"" in diameter; fine gray and white specks throughout; thickness ranges form 5 to 9""."; continuous - phpvsfiid 531965; continuous - phpvsfiid 531965
    Bt3—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) interior gravelly clay loam; moderate fine and medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01053. "30% gravels to 3"" in diameter; common small gray and white speks; thickness ranges from 5 to 9""."; continuous - phpvsfiid 531966; continuous - phpvsfiid 531966
    BC—81 to 91 centimeters (31.9 to 35.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) interior gravelly clay; platy, and weak medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01054. "30% gravel to 3"" in diameter; gray and white specks throughout; thickness ranges form 2 to 6""."; continuous - phpvsfiid 531967; continuous - phpvsfiid 531967
    C2—81 to 244 centimeters (31.9 to 96.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) interior gravelly silt loam; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01056. "Description taken from borrow pit near sample site; streaked with loam containing about 40% gravels to 3"" in diameter."
    C1—91 to 109 centimeters (35.8 to 42.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior gravelly clay loam; weak fine and medium platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent clay films and 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01055. "30% gravel to 3"" in diameter; many small gray and white specks throughout."