IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Klinesville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 462
  • User Pedon ID: 1966PA069008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 462
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 66PA069008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44390
  • 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: 41.3658333
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5688889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.25 mi S along the tel. line, 1.2 mi W of Jct of Rts 35008 & 611, 1.5 mi SW of Elmhurst, Roaring Brook Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA069—Lackawanna
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41075-C5—Moscow, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Sautter, S. Browning
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Klinesville
  • PSC - 25 to 44 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/28/2014
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Klinesville
  • Classificaton Date - 6/23/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2
  • Field Measured Properties: 1.83 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.42 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.42 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/23/1966 ()
  • 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

    BEOC2

    BEPA

    FAGUS

    FRAM2

    PRSE2

    QUVE

    Acer rubrum

    Betula occidentalis

    Betula papyrifera

    Fagus

    Fraxinus americana

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus velutina

    red maple

    water birch

    paper birch

    beech

    white ash

    black cherry

    black oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    44 - 69

    - 25 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    8—13

    13—31

    44—69

    —5—

    —18—

    —25—
    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

    3

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    536

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    250

    1050

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    8.3

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03472. "Leaves, twigs and grass debris, well matted."
    Oa—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior highly decomposed plant material; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03473. Silt loam well decomposed organic matter.
    E—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) interior channery silt loam; weak fine platy, and weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 35 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03474. 35% fragments to 6 inches (flat).
    Bw—13 to 31 centimeters (5.1 to 12.2 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior very channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 60 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03475. 60% fragments to 6 inches (flat).
    C—31 to 44 centimeters (12.2 to 17.3 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior very channery clay loam; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 90 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03476. Friable to loose moist consistence; 90% fragments to 6 inches (flat).
    R—44 to 69 centimeters (17.3 to 27.2 inches); dusky red (10R 3/2) interior bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # PSU03477. Fine grained red sandstone and red shale bedrock. The bedrock in its upper part is somewhat fractured. Horizontal fracture planes are dominantly 0.5-1 inch apart.