IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Conotton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 338
  • User Pedon ID: 1959PA049001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 59PA049001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44252
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 42.2050000
  • Std. Longitude: -79.8683333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sedgewick farm, 1.5 mi W of North East, North East Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA049—Erie
  • MLRA: 100—Erie Fruit and Truck Area
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42079-B7—North East, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Conotton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Conotton
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: beach
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1959 ()
  • 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
    • 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

    5

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    226

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    315

    1000

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    9

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02541
    E—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02542
    Bw1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02543
    Bw2—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior gravelly clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02544. Structure modified by shape and size of gravel.
    2BC1—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02545
    2BC2—97 to 124 centimeters (38.2 to 48.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior very gravelly sandy loam; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02546. Almost single grain structure but some slight platiness.
    2C—124 to 140 centimeters (48.8 to 55.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior very gravelly sandy loam; structureless single grain; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02547. Some apparent platiness due to stratification.