IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Holly
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 750
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA115007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 750
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA115007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45260
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 41.8105556
  • Std. Longitude: -75.9661111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 270 ft SW of bridge abutment, 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: Fine-silty, mixed Haplaquepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Holly
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Holly
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/1958 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    AGAL3

    ASCLE

    POPR

    RANUN

    SAMBU

    TRRE3

    ULMUS

    Agrostis alba

    Asclepias

    Poa pratensis

    Ranunculus

    Sambucus

    Trifolium repens

    Ulmus

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    milkweed

    Kentucky bluegrass

    buttercup

    elderberry

    white clover

    elm

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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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    325

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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 grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; platy, and weak fine granular structure; friable; 11 percent fine faint brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 11 percent fine faint gray (N 5/0); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05645
    BAg—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine platy structure; friable, slightly plastic; 60 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05646
    2Bw—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine platy structure; friable, nonplastic; 11 percent medium faint gray (N 5/0); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05647
    2Cg1—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); dark greenish gray (5GY 4/1) interior sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; friable, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05648
    3Cg2—86 to 117 centimeters (33.9 to 46.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior very gravelly sand; structureless single grain; 90 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05649; wet, satiated when described;