IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 775
  • User Pedon ID: 1963PA117007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 775
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 63PA117007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45287
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 41.9380556
  • Std. Longitude: -77.3663889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 225 ft E of Rt. 58026, 6.7 mi NW of Keeneyville.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA117—Tioga
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41077-H3—Elkland, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Carey, J. Rayburn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, nonacid Mollic Haplaquepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alden
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alden
  • Classificaton Date - 6/20/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/1963 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree 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

    CAREX

    CRSC

    PIST

    TSCA

    Carex

    Crypsis schoenoides

    Pinus strobus

    Tsuga canadensis

    sedge

    swamp pricklegrass

    eastern white pine

    eastern hemlock

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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

    0

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    576

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    0

    900

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    7.9

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (5YR 2/1) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU05744; wet, satiated when described;
    Bwg1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); greenish gray (5GY 5/1) interior silty clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 11 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 11 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and 11 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU05745; wet, satiated when described;
    Bwg2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) interior silty clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; clay films on surfaces along root channels; 11 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 11 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 11 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05746; wet, satiated when described;
    Bwg3—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); greenish gray (5GY 5/1) interior silty clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; clay films; 11 percent fine prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and 11 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 11 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 10 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05747; wet, satiated when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 535018; patchy - phpvsfiid 535018
    2Cg—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 60 percent fine and medium distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and 60 percent fine and medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 60 percent fine and medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 25 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05748; wet, satiated when described;