IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chrome
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1959PA045005
  • User Pedon ID: 1959PA045005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1959PA045005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 59PA045005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44247
  • 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: 39.9753444
  • Std. Longitude: -75.4329667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: W edge of Florida Park, 500 ft S of Rt 3, 1200 ft E of Crum creek, Newton Twp.
  • Map Unit: CkB—Chrome silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA045—Delaware
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA045—Delaware County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39075-H4—Media, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Matelski, W. Kunkle, F. Blest, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chrome
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Classifier - A. Friend
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chrome
  • Classificaton Date - 4/24/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from serpentinite
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent serpentinite at 53cm
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/24/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Ap

    Bt

    C

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Ap

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Ap

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    9999

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CASC11

    PISY

    Carex scoparia

    Pinus sylvestris

    broom sedge

    Scots pine

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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

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior gravelly silty clay loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02506
    Bt—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 60 percent by volume hornfels fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02507. About 60% olive (5Y 6/6) serpentine fragments up to 6 inches.
    C—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); greenish gray (5G 6/1) interior silty clay; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02508. Greenish gray (5G 6/1) weathered rock coated with yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam. Harder rock below 21 inches.