IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frenchtown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 582
  • User Pedon ID: 1963PA085004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 582
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 63PA085004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44523
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 41.2336111
  • Std. Longitude: -80.4080556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: McDowell Farm 160 ft W of T444, .5 mi Sof US 62, 2.2 mi E of Hickory Corners.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA085—Mercer
  • MLRA: 139—Lake Erie Glaciated Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41080-B4—Sharon East, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Carey, D. Grice, R. Grubb, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiaqualfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Frenchtown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frenchtown
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/1963 ()
  • 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

    2SHRUB

    CRATA

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    Crataegus

    Shrub (>.5m)

    hawthorn

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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

    1

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    351

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    270

    1000

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    9.1

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04515
    Btg—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films; 60 percent coarse distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04516. Few gravel less than 1 inch.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534231; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534231
    2Bgx1—51 to 86 centimeters (20.1 to 33.9 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) interior silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse platy, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; faint clay films; 11 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04517. Few gravel to 2 inches.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534232; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534232
    3Bgx2—86 to 119 centimeters (33.9 to 46.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior and gray (5Y 5/1) broken face silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; 11 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04518. Common fine distinct mottling near prism face. Silty deposit on ped faces.
    4Cg—119 to 175 centimeters (46.9 to 68.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior and gray (5Y 5/1) broken face silt loam; massive, and weak medium prismatic; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent clay films; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU04519; wet, satiated when described;. 5% gravel.; patchy - phpvsfiid 534233; patchy - phpvsfiid 534233