IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mount Lucas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10
  • User Pedon ID: 1961PA001017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 10
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 61PA001017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43438
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 39.9363889
  • Std. Longitude: -77.0752778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 105 ft W of pole 17 130 ft N of T572 2 mi NW of Hampton.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA001—Adams
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39077-H1—Hampton, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Noll, R. Speir
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mount Lucas
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mount Lucas
  • Classificaton Date - 6/6/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/6/1961 ()
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MESA

    PHLEU

    Medicago sativa

    Phleum

    alfalfa

    timothy

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    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

    3

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    174

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    225

    1050

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    10.6

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00056
    Bt1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; faint brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00057
    Bt2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films; 1 percent medium distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) and 1 percent medium distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3); fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00058
    Bt3—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak coarse blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent medium distinct brown (10YR 5/3) and 11 percent medium distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/3); fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00059. Few black and gray specks.
    BC—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior sandy loam; weak fine and medium platy structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 1 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2); fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00060. Some clay lens of dark brown (7.5YR 4/4); common black and white specks.
    C—84 to 97 centimeters (33.1 to 38.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior loamy coarse sand; weak thick platy, and structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00061. Some grains of light gray (10YR 7/2).