IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lansdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 607
  • User Pedon ID: 1960PA091001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 60PA091001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44551
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025
  • 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: 40.1977778
  • Std. Longitude: -75.1694444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.75 mi W of Prospectville, first lane south of Horsham rd west of its intersection with Bayblon road.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA091—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-B2—Ambler, Pennsylvania
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Noll, R. Smith, J. Levitan, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lansdale
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Steinsburg
  • Classificaton Date - 5/31/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 2.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 3 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 14.25 in/hr of percolation rate


  • SITE

  • Landscape: lowland
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/31/1960 ()
  • 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

    11

    87

    315

    1100

    10.7

    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04675. Less than 5% fragments.
    Bw—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; prominent clay films; 10 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04676. 10% fragments.
    BC—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior channery sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04677. Partial clay films. 20% fragments.
    C1—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very channery sandy loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 80 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04678. Few partial clay films. 80% fragments.
    C2—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior very channery sandy loam; weak medium platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent clay films; 95 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04679. 95% fragments.
    C3—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loamy sand; weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU04680