IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lehigh
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 871
  • User Pedon ID: 1957PA133011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA133011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45394
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • 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: 40.0380556
  • Std. Longitude: -76.9461111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 50 ft NE of 66034, 1/8 mi S of Rt 190, 1 mi SW of Wellsville.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA133—York
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-A8—Wellsville, Pennsylvania
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, C. Engle, R. Smith, F. Loughry, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Mollic Ochraqualfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lehigh
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lehigh
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: lowland
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately 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
  • 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

    180

    180

    1000

    10.5

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) interior silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06516
    AB—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky; faint coats on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06517. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535465; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535465
    Btg1—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior silt loam; moderate fine platy structure; friable, nonsticky; faint coats on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine faint olive (5Y 5/4) and 11 percent fine faint olive gray (5Y 4/2); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06518. Structure mixed with blocky structure.
    Btg2—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) interior clay loam; strong medium and coarse blocky, and strong medium prismatic structure; firm, slightly sticky; faint coats on all faces of peds; 11 percent medium faint dark gray (5Y 4/1) and 11 percent medium faint olive (5Y 5/6); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06519. continuous - phpvsfiid 535467; continuous - phpvsfiid 535467
    C—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior very channery silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky structure; firm, nonsticky; 80 percent by volume hornfels fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06520. 80% gray porcelainite fragments. Voids between coarse fragments.
    Cr—81 to 95 centimeters (31.9 to 37.4 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU06521