IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellsboro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 747
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA115004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 747
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA115004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45256
  • 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: 41.6916667
  • Std. Longitude: -75.8216667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 480 ft W of house, 65 ft N of road, 1.5 mi N of Tarbot pond, 7.5 mi E 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-F7—Hop Bottom, 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 #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellsboro
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Culvers
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately 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 - hayland
  • 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

    TRPR2

    Phleum

    Trifolium pratense

    timothy

    red clover

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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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    396

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    180

    1000

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    8.6

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05628
    E—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) interior channery loam; weak fine platy structure; friable, nonplastic; 11 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05629
    BA—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior channery silt loam; moderate medium platy, and weak medium blocky structure; firm, slightly plastic; faint clay films; 11 percent fine faint reddish gray (5YR 5/2) and 11 percent fine faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05630. continuous - phpvsfiid 534979; continuous - phpvsfiid 534979
    Bx1—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior and gray (5YR 6/1) broken face and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) channery silt loam; weak fine and medium blocky, and weak medium platy structure; firm, moderately plastic; brittle; faint coats on surfaces along root channels; 11 percent medium faint reddish gray (5YR 5/2); 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05631. Gray (5YR 6/1) prism faces.
    Bx2—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior and gray (5YR 6/1) broken face and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) channery loam; weak medium blocky structure; firm, slightly plastic; brittle; prominent clay films on surfaces along root channels and faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05632. Gray (5YR 6/1) prism faces with streaks of reddish yellow (5YR 5/6).
    Bx3—99 to 114 centimeters (39.0 to 44.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior and gray (N 6/0) broken face and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) channery loam; friable; brittle; 50 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05633. Gray (6/0) and yellowish red (5YR 4/8) on the prism faces; 7-10 inch prisms.