IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cardiff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 866
  • User Pedon ID: 1957PA133006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 866
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA133006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45388
  • 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: 39.7341667
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2713889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Boyd Farm 50 ft SE of northern boundary in the second tree row, 1.5 mi S of Peach Bottom.
  • 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 #: 6
  • 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 - other
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - crop shrubs
  • 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

    PRPE3

    Prunus persica

    peach

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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

    4

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    171

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    0

    1050

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    10.5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 15 percent by volume slate fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06485. 15% fine slate fragments.
    Bw1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior loam; weak fine platy, and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent by volume slate fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06486. 35% slate fragments.
    Bw2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; weak fine platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; faint coats on all faces of peds; 35 percent by volume slate fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06487. 35% slate fragments.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535456; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535456
    C1—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior loam; friable; 85 percent by volume slate fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06488. 85% coarse slate fragments.
    C2—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); black (N 2/0) interior silty clay loam; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06489. Black (2.5Y 2/0) and weathered black (N 2/0) Peach Bottom slate coated with clay loam.