IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Athol
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 67
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA011004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 67
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA011004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44620
  • Print Date: 10/31/2024

    • 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: 40.3158333
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7505556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Brightstine farm, Douglasville, 1.4 mi SE of yellow house on T662, Amity Twp., Berks Co.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA011—Berks
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-C7—Birdsboro, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Carey, L. Lengel, R. Shipp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Athol
  • PSC - 20 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/2016
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Athol
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.88 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.62 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.74 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: 3/19/1962 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    PHLEU

    POPR

    TRPR2

    Phleum

    Poa pratensis

    Trifolium pratense

    timothy

    Kentucky bluegrass

    red clover

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—61

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    —41—
    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

    6

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    98

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    90

    1100

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    10.5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky; 5.0 roots; 5 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00454
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; 5.0 roots; faint clay films; 5 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00455. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1491774; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1491774
    Bt2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior loam; weak medium blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; 0.5 roots; clay films on all faces of peds and 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 10 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU00456. Films are on larger surfaces.
    BC—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior loam; moderate coarse platy, and weak fine blocky structure; firm, nonsticky; distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels and 38 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU00457. Moderately thick clay films on larger surfaces.
    C1—81 to 127 centimeters (31.9 to 50.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior loam; weak fine and medium blocky structure; firm, nonsticky; clay films on surfaces along root channels and 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 50 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00458. Clay films on larger surfaces.