IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellsboro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 748
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA115005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 748
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA115005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45257
  • 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: 41.6677778
  • Std. Longitude: -75.8458333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 40 ft W of fence, 420 ft N of gas station, 10 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 #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellsboro
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Culvers
  • Classificaton Date - 6/4/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/4/1958 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ERIGE2

    PHLEU

    POPR

    TRPR2

    Erigeron

    Phleum

    Poa pratensis

    Trifolium pratense

    fleabane

    timothy

    Kentucky bluegrass

    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

    7

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    378

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    225

    1000

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    8.6

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior channery silt loam; very strong fine granular structure; friable; 7 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05634
    E—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine platy structure; friable; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); 5 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05635
    Bx1—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior gravelly loam; weak very coarse angular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; friable; brittle; 60 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 60 percent medium prominent light gray (N 7/0); 10 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05636
    Bx2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior gravelly silt loam; weak medium blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; brittle; 11 percent medium distinct light gray (N 7/0); 15 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05637
    Bx3—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; brittle; faint clay films; 11 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2); 10 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05638. continuous - phpvsfiid 534983; continuous - phpvsfiid 534983
    Bx4—97 to 114 centimeters (38.2 to 44.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior channery silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium platy structure; firm, slightly sticky; brittle; 11 percent fine faint light gray (5YR 7/1); 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05639