IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Basher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 761
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA115018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 761
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA115018
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45272
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 41.6555556
  • Std. Longitude: -75.9688889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 210 ft S of Rt 311, 2 mi W of Lynn, 14 mi S of Montrose.
  • 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, R. Matelski, W. Steputis, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Aquic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 18
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Basher
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Basher
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/1958
  • 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: 6/27/1958 ()
  • 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

    0

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    271

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    950

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    9

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05706
    BA—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05707. Clay bridging and partial clay coatings.
    Bw1—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior gravelly loam; structureless single grain; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05708. Slight clay bridging.
    Bw2—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium and coarse blocky structure; friable; 60 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 60 percent fine distinct 5YR 3/ (5YR 3/); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05709
    BC—94 to 112 centimeters (37.0 to 44.1 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior very fine sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; 11 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 11 percent medium distinct gray (5YR 6/1); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05710