IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lordstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 780
  • User Pedon ID: 1963PA117012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 780
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 63PA117012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45293
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 41.7444444
  • Std. Longitude: -76.9261111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 150 ft E of T471, 1.8 mi E of T850, 2.1 mi S of State Road Church.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA117—Tioga
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41076-F8—Gleason, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Carey, J. Rayburn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Lithic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lordstown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mehoopany
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/19/1963 ()
  • 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

    ACRU

    CRATA

    DASP2

    GAYLU

    POTR5

    VACCI

    Acer rubrum

    Crataegus

    Danthonia spicata

    Gaylussacia

    Populus tremuloides

    Vaccinium

    red maple

    hawthorn

    poverty oatgrass

    huckleberry

    quaking aspen

    blueberry

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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

    10

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    707

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    45

    900

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    7.5

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05772
    Bw1—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 35 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05773
    Bw2—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 45 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05774
    BC—38 to 46 centimeters (15.0 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior very gravelly loam; friable; 75 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05775. Structure is obscured by fragments.
    R—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU05776. Grayish brown sandstone.