IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Basher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 749
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA115006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 749
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA115006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45258
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 41.8108333
  • Std. Longitude: -75.9658333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 450 ft SE of stream bank, 123 ft SW of bridge crossing Wyalsuing Creek 7 mi W of Montrose on Rt 106.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA115—Susquehanna
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41075-G8—Montrose West, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, D. Pease, R. Matelski, R. Shipp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Aquic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Basher
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Basher
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/1958 ()
  • 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

    TRIFO

    Medicago sativa

    Phleum

    Trifolium

    alfalfa

    timothy

    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

    0

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    326

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    0

    950

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    8.8

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine platy, and weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly plastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05640
    BA—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; faint coats; 60 percent fine distinct dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05641
    Bwg1—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 60 percent fine distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05642
    2Bwg2—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); dark gray (5YR 4/1) interior gravelly sandy loam; friable, slightly sticky; faint coats on rock fragments; 1 percent coarse distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4); 45 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05643
    2Cg—79 to 122 centimeters (31.1 to 48.0 inches); dark gray (5YR 4/1) interior and dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior very gravelly sand; loose; 60 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05644; wet, satiated when described;. Gravel from 1/2 to 3 inches in diameter.