IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glenelg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 868
  • User Pedon ID: 1957PA133008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 868
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA133008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45390
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 39.7513889
  • Std. Longitude: -76.5072222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Bowman farm 270 ft S of Rt 66011 0.75 mi NW of Rt 1786, 1.12 mi N of New Park.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA133—York
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-G5—Stewartstown, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Pedersen, F. Loughry, R. Matelski, R. Smith, J. Noll
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • PSC - 36 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Classifier - A. Friend
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chester
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

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

    HORDE

    Hordeum

    barley

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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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    232

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    90

    1100

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    10.3

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 15 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06498. 15% fragments.
    BA—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior gravelly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06499. Some fragments.
    Bt1—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint coats on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06500. Some schist fragments.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164203; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164203
    Bt2—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; faint coats on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06501. More fragments than above.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164204; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164204
    BC—66 to 71 centimeters (26.0 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior gravelly clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU06502. Increasing proportion of fragments.
    C1—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very gravelly sandy clay loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; 20 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06503. "Containing many coarse fragments of slightly weathered red, black and yellow schist."
    C2—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very gravelly sandy clay loam; weak medium platy structure; 20 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06504. "Many red, yellow and black schist fragments."