IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Croton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 614
  • User Pedon ID: 1960PA091008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 60PA091008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44559
  • 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: 40.3011111
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5494444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hays farm 435 feet N of New Hanover Square road, 0.75 mi S of New Hanover Square.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA091—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA091—Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-C5—Sassamansville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Noll, R. Smith, J. Levitan, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Fragiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Croton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Croton
  • Classificaton Date - 6/2/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.15 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.15 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/2/1960 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    1

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    76

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    270

    1100

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    10.8

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent medium faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04725
    BAg—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films; 60 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04726
    Btg—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; 11 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04727. Occasional black coatings.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1162679; continuous - phpvsfiid 1162679
    Bgx—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); gray (N 6/0) interior silty clay; weak very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; clay films; 11 percent fine and medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04728; wet, satiated when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 1162680; continuous - phpvsfiid 1162680
    Bx—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; distinct clay films on top faces of peds; 11 percent fine distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 11 percent fine distinct gray (5YR 6/1); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04729; wet, satiated when described;
    C—86 to 97 centimeters (33.9 to 38.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; weak medium platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent fine distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 11 percent fine distinct gray (5YR 6/1); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU04730; wet, satiated when described;. Black concretions.