IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lackawanna
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 744
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA115001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 744
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA115001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45253
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 41.7097222
  • Std. Longitude: -75.9680556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 180 ft W of 4th locust tree W of house, 3 mi W of Springville.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA115—Susquehanna
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41075-F8—Springville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, D. Pease, W. Steputis, R. Matelski, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lackawanna
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cattaraugus
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/24/1958 ()
  • 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

    MESA

    PHLEU

    Medicago sativa

    Phleum

    alfalfa

    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

    13

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    402

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    135

    950

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    8.5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05608
    E—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine platy structure; friable; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05609
    BA—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 14 percent faint clay films; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05610
    Bw1—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05611. Some briding and partial clay coatings.
    Bw2—66 to 71 centimeters (26.0 to 28.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, nonplastic; 1 percent fine faint pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) and 1 percent fine faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU05612
    Bx1—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior channery loam; weak medium blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; brittle; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05613. "Weak fragipan, partial clay coatings."
    Bx2—86 to 114 centimeters (33.9 to 44.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior channery silt loam; weak medium blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; brittle; 14 percent coats; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05614