IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Readington
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 617
  • User Pedon ID: 1960PA091012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 617
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 60PA091012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44562
  • 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: 40.2916667
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5500000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sampled at Girl Scouts of America, Camp Laughing Waters, 105' N of pole 1840, 130' E of pole 1839.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA091—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-C5—Sassamansville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Smith, L. Seglin, J. Levitan, I. Mason, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Readington
  • PSC - 38 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/19/2016
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Readington
  • Classificaton Date - 9/7/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.42 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.58 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.67 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: lowland
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/7/1960 ()
  • 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

    CICHO

    DACA6

    PHLEU

    SOCA3

    TRPR2

    Cichorium

    Daucus carota

    Phleum

    Solanum carolinense

    Trifolium pratense

    chicory

    Queen Anne's lace

    timothy

    Carolina horsenettle

    red clover

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

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    51 - 102

    - 51 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    fragipan

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    reduced matrix

    0—38

    38—74

    51—84

    51—102

    51—102

    51—112

    102—112

    102—112

    —38—

    —36—

    —33—

    —51—

    —51—

    —61—

    —10—

    —10—
    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

    2

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    73

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    225

    1100

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    10.8

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04744
    AB—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; moderate coarse blocky, and moderate medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04745
    BA—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium platy, and moderate medium blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine faint brown (7.5YR 5/4) and 11 percent fine faint brown (7.5YR 4/3); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04746. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164550; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164550
    Bt1—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine faint brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 11 percent fine faint brown (7.5YR 5/4); 5 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04747. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164551; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164551
    Bt2—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse platy, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky; brittle; clay films; 60 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 60 percent fine distinct reddish gray (5YR 5/2); 15 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04748. Black coatings. 10% fragments.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1164552; continuous - phpvsfiid 1164552
    Btx1—74 to 84 centimeters (29.1 to 33.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior gravelly silty clay loam; weak very coarse platy, and weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky; brittle; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine distinct pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) and 11 percent fine distinct reddish gray (5YR 5/2) and 11 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 20 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04749. 25% fragments.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164553; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164553
    Btx2—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior gravelly silty clay loam; weak very coarse platy, and weak medium and coarse platy, and blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky; brittle; 11 percent fine faint reddish gray (5YR 5/2) and 11 percent fine faint dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2); 25 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04750. Thin partial clay films.
    Ctg—102 to 112 centimeters (40.2 to 44.1 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior gravelly silty clay loam; weak very coarse platy structure; very firm, moderately sticky; brittle; 11 percent medium faint reddish brown (5YR 5/3) and 11 percent medium distinct pinkish gray (5YR 6/2); 30 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU04751. Black coatings. Thin partial clay films. 30% fragments.