IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Norwich
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 763
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA115020
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 763
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA115020
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45274
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 41.6752778
  • Std. Longitude: -75.9858333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 300 ft E of Rt 57013 and 100 ft S of stone wall 3 mi S of Auburn.
  • 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, A. Baur, M. Austin, D. Pease, W. Steputis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiaquepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Norwich
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Norwich
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/4/1958 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - wetlands
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • 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

    CAREX

    DACA6

    POPR

    RANUN

    SOLID

    Agrostis alba

    Carex

    Daucus carota

    Poa pratensis

    Ranunculus

    Solidago

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    sedge

    Queen Anne's lace

    Kentucky bluegrass

    buttercup

    goldenrod

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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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    360

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    0

    950

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    8.7

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05718
    BAg—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) interior and gray (5Y 5/1) interior silty clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and weak medium and coarse blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct coats on all faces of peds; 60 percent medium prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) and 60 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05719
    2Bwg1—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior and dark gray (N 4/0) exterior clay loam; weak medium platy, and weak very coarse prismatic structure; friable, slightly plastic; 60 percent medium prominent gray (N 5/0) and 60 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05720. Iron oxide on plates and root channels.
    2Bwg2—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior loam; weak platy structure; friable, nonplastic; 60 percent fine and medium gray (N 5/0) and 60 percent fine and medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05721; wet, satiated when described;. Many dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) inclusions of shale.
    3Bgx—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; structureless massive; firm, nonplastic; brittle; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05722; wet, satiated when described;