IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cardiff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 865
  • User Pedon ID: 1957PA133005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 865
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA133005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45387
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.7436111
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2894444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Pue Estate, 130 ft NW of Cedar tree at bend in road SE of Slatesville Church.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA133—York
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-F3—Delta, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Pedersen, F. Loughry, R. Matelski, R. Smith, J. Noll
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cardiff
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cardiff
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/9/1957 ()
  • 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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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

    6

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    116

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    135

    1050

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    10.7

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 30 percent by volume slate fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06480. 30% coarse slate fragments.
    Bw1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent by volume slate fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06481. "Structure modified by slate. 30% coarse fragments, some up to 4 x 3 1 inches."
    Bw2—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 40 percent by volume slate fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06482. Structure modified by slate. 40% coarse fragments.
    BC—58 to 64 centimeters (22.8 to 25.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior silty clay loam; weak fine blocky structure; friable; 60 percent by volume slate fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU06483. Structure modified by slate. Thin clay coatings on peds and slate fragments. 60% slate fragments some up to 8 inches.
    C—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior very flaggy loam; 80 percent by volume slate fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06484. 80% coarse slate fragments.