IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Reaville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 616
  • User Pedon ID: 1960PA091011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 616
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 60PA091011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44561
  • 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: 40.2875000
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5638889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.4 mi SW of caretakers house along New Hanover Square Rd, 230' S of the dirt Rd, 2 mi S of New Hanover Sq.
  • 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: R. Smith, F. Loughry, J. Levitan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Reaville
  • PSC - 25 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2016
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Reaville
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1960
  • Classifier - Soil Survey Staff
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.06 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.1 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.1 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.16 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.16 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.44 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1960 ()
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ASTER

    DACA6

    PHLEU

    SOLID

    Aster

    Daucus carota

    Phleum

    Solidago

    aster

    Queen Anne's lace

    timothy

    goldenrod

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    102 - 127

    - 25 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    reduced matrix

    lithic contact

    0—25

    18—36

    18—102

    25—36

    25—36

    36—102

    102—127

    —25—

    —18—

    —84—

    —11—

    —11—

    —66—

    —25—
    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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    103

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    0

    1100

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    10.7

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04739
    BA—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8); 10 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04740. Some platiness near the top. PArtial clay films on peds.
    Bt—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium and coarse blocky structure; friable; 11 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and 11 percent medium prominent gray (5YR 6/1); 15 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04741. Partial clay films.
    Cg1—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior gravelly silt loam; moderate coarse blocky, and weak medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky; 30 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04742. Partial clay films on ped and siltstones.
    Cg2—58 to 102 centimeters (22.8 to 40.2 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior gravelly clay loam; weak very coarse platy structure; very firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU04743. Some black coatings.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1164554; continuous - phpvsfiid 1164554
    R—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) bedrock; fragments.