IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Swartswood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 673
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA103012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 673
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA103012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44624
  • 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: 41.2322222
  • Std. Longitude: -74.9511111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sampled at Edgemere State Forest. 100' W of Dingman Pike, 1.6 mi S and 5 mi belo Meadow road.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA103—Pike
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41074-B8—Lake Maskenozha, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Carey, D. Taylor, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Swartswood
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Swartswood
  • Classificaton Date - 6/17/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 3.83 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.58 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.67 in/hr of percolation rate and 7.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 9.17 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/17/1964 ()
  • 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

    GAYLU

    KAAN

    QUAL

    QUPR2

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Gaylussacia

    Kalmia angustifolia

    Quercus alba

    Quercus prinus

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    huckleberry

    sheep laurel

    white oak

    chestnut oak

    northern red oak

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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

    22

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    451

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    90

    1100

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    8.7

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05212. "Leaf litter, mostly oak."
    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 # PSU05213. "Leaf mold, roots, and fungus mycelia held together in a tough fibrous mat."
    Bs—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05214
    Bw1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05215
    Bw2—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine granular, and structureless platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05216
    Bw3—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05217
    Bw4—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05218
    Bw5—53 to 94 centimeters (20.9 to 37.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05219. Few thin patchy silt coatings.
    Bx1—94 to 119 centimeters (37.0 to 46.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior very gravelly sandy loam; weak very coarse platy structure; very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 50 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05220
    Bx2—119 to 147 centimeters (46.9 to 57.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior very gravelly sandy loam; weak very coarse platy, and weak medium blocky structure; extremely firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 55 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05221. Underlain by bedrock at about 5 feet.