IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chenango
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 664
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA103003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 664
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA103003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44614
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 41.2238889
  • Std. Longitude: -75.0294444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 90 ft W on Kame, .5 mi S of Flat Ridge Road on Old Broadhead Trail.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA103—Pike
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41075-B1—Twelvemile Pond, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Carey, E. Sautter, D. Taylor, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chenango
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Woostern
  • Classificaton Date - 6/16/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 42 in/hr of percolation rate and 42 in/hr of percolation rate and 42 in/hr of percolation rate and 43 in/hr of percolation rate and 44 in/hr of percolation rate and 37 in/hr of percolation rate and 40 in/hr of percolation rate and 40 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: outwash terrace
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/16/1964 ()
  • 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

    PIRI

    QUAL

    VACCI

    Pinus rigida

    Quercus alba

    Vaccinium

    pitch pine

    white oak

    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

    4

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    396

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    90

    1100

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    8.9

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05126. "Leaf litter, mostly oak."
    Oa—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05127. "Leaf mold, roots, and fungus myceilia held together in a tough fibrous mat."
    E—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); black (7.5YR 2/1) interior loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05128
    Bs—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05129
    Bw1—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05130
    Bw2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior gravelly sandy loam; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05131
    2Bw3—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior very gravelly sandy loam; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 50 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05132. 50% gravels and cobbles with some weathered remnants of limestone. Structureless with silt and clay caps on gravel.
    2BC—71 to 132 centimeters (28.0 to 52.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior very gravelly sandy loam; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 80 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05133. 80% gravels and cobbles with weathered remnants of limestone. Structureless iwth silt and clay caps on gravel.