IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 592
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA089010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 592
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA089010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44534
  • 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: 40.9230556
  • Std. Longitude: -75.2622222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Oyer Farm in pasture 200 ft N of Rt 165 .25 mi E of Bossardsville.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA089—Monroe
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-H3—Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, F. Loughry, E. Sautter, G. Fisher
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Aquic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Canfield
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Troy
  • Classificaton Date - 6/7/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 6 in/hr of percolation rate and 10 in/hr of percolation rate and 12 in/hr of percolation rate and 13 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/7/1965 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    2GA

    2SHRUB

    CEDRU

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    Cedrus

    Grass, annual

    Shrub (>.5m)

    cedar

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    —

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    —

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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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    —

    195

    —

    135

    1200

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    9.8

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine platy, and moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04582. 15% fragments.
    Bt—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior gravelly silt loam; moderate fine and medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04583. 20% fragments.; patchy - phpvsfiid 534280; patchy - phpvsfiid 534280
    Btx1—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior gravelly silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04584. 20% fragments.; patchy - phpvsfiid 534281; patchy - phpvsfiid 534281
    Btx2—69 to 99 centimeters (27.2 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior gravelly silt loam; weak coarse blocky, and weak coarse platy, and weak very coarse prismatic structure; very firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; 38 percent prominent clay films; 25 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04585. 25% fragments.; patchy - phpvsfiid 534282; patchy - phpvsfiid 534282
    Btx3—99 to 132 centimeters (39.0 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior gravelly loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse blocky, and weak coarse platy structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 38 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along pores; 11 percent medium faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 11 percent medium faint brown (10YR 4/3); 25 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04586. 25% fragments.; patchy - phpvsfiid 534283; patchy - phpvsfiid 534283
    Btx4—132 to 157 centimeters (52.0 to 61.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and brown (10YR 5/3) broken face gravelly loam; weak coarse blocky, and weak coarse platy, and weak very coarse prismatic structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; prominent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04587. Interiors with brown (10YR 5/3) prism faces. 30% fragments.; patchy - phpvsfiid 534284; patchy - phpvsfiid 534284
    Btx5—157 to 188 centimeters (61.8 to 74.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and brown (10YR 5/3) broken face gravelly loam; weak coarse platy, and weak very coarse prismatic, and weak coarse blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 14 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 35 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU04588. Interiors with brown (10YR 5/3) prism faces. 35% fragments.; patchy - phpvsfiid 534285; patchy - phpvsfiid 534285