IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Swartswood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 665
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA103004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 665
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA103004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44615
  • 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: 41.2305556
  • Std. Longitude: -75.0361111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 80' NW of old Broadhead road. .13 mi N of Flat Ridge road.
  • 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Swartswood
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Swartswood
  • Classificaton Date - 6/16/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 4 in/hr of percolation rate and 4 in/hr of percolation rate and 4 in/hr of percolation rate and 5 in/hr of percolation rate and 10.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 12.66 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 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

    ACRU

    PIRI

    QUPR2

    QURU

    VACCI

    Acer rubrum

    Pinus rigida

    Quercus prinus

    Quercus rubra

    Vaccinium

    red maple

    pitch pine

    chestnut oak

    northern red 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

    6

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    415

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    270

    1100

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    8.8

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05134. Leaf mat
    Oa—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05135
    E—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05136
    Bs—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05137
    Bw1—23 to 35 centimeters (9.1 to 13.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05138
    Bw2—35 to 51 centimeters (13.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 25 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05139
    Bw3—51 to 58 centimeters (20.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior gravelly sandy loam; platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05140
    Bx1—58 to 99 centimeters (22.8 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05141. Some pockets of finer material with a reddish hue. Clay coatings in pores.
    Bx2—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak very coarse platy structure; very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05142. Banded with grayish brown (10YR 5/2). Underlain by similar material. Clay coatings in pores.