IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lehigh
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 872
  • User Pedon ID: 1957PA133012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 872
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA133012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45395
  • 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: 40.0700000
  • Std. Longitude: -76.9608333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Miller farm 50 ft W of T858 and 100 ft SW of Rt 899, 1 mi NE of Rt 74, 1.5 mi NW 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 #: 12
  • 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: medium
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PHLEU

    Phleum

    timothy

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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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    226

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    270

    1000

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    10.4

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06522
    Bt1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior channery silt loam; moderate fine platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky; 1 percent fine faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 1 percent fine faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06523. Worm holes in this horizon are filled with Ap material.
    Bt2—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior channery silt loam; moderate fine platy, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky; 11 percent medium distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and 11 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06524
    Cr—58 to 71 centimeters (22.8 to 28.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior very channery silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky; 80 percent by volume hornfels fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06525. Filling voids between yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandstone fragments which make up about 80% of the soil mass.