IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Croton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 863
  • User Pedon ID: 1957PA133003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 863
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA133003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45385
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.9875000
  • Std. Longitude: -76.8591667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Herlacker farm 150' S of Rt 66002, Dover Twp.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA133—York
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA133—York County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-H7—West York, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Pedersen, F. Loughry, R. Matelski, R. Smith, J. Noll
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Fragiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Croton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Croton
  • Classificaton Date - 10/8/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/8/1957 ()
  • 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

    PHLEU

    TRIFO

    Phleum

    Trifolium

    timothy

    clover

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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

    1

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    149

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    0

    1000

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    10.6

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06465
    BA—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine platy structure; friable; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06466
    Btg1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium blocky structure; firm; faint coats; 11 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06467. Gray (10YR 5/1) tongues of A2 horizon.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162682; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162682
    Btg2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior and gray (10YR 5/1) exterior silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; gray (10YR 5/1) coats; 60 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06468. "Prism faces are coated with silt, other ped faces with clay."
    Bt—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior and dark gray (5YR 4/1) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 60 percent medium prominent reddish gray (5YR 5/2); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06469. Ped faces thickly coated with dark gray (5YR 4/1) silt.
    Bx1—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior and gray (5YR 5/1) exterior clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and weak fine and medium platy structure; firm; brittle; faint gray (5YR 5/1) coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06470. Less firm than three horizons above.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162684; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162684
    Bx2—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium platy structure; firm; brittle; 1 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 1 percent medium distinct gray (5YR 5/1); fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06471. Prisms to 40 inches with some gray (5YR 6/1) clay coatings.
    R—112 to 125 centimeters (44.1 to 49.2 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06472