IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Klinesville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 464
  • User Pedon ID: 1966PA069010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 464
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 66PA069010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44392
  • 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: 41.3502778
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5408333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 600 ft N of a shale pit, 0.25 mi E of T330 on McAndrews Rd, 1.5 mi S of Rt 611 and T330, Moscow Borough.
  • 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 #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Klinesville
  • PSC - 25 to 46 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: 1.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.88 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 3 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.75 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: 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

    ACSA2

    ACSA3

    FRAM2

    PRSE2

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharinum

    Acer saccharum

    Fraxinus americana

    Prunus serotina

    red maple

    silver maple

    sugar maple

    white ash

    black cherry

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

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    46 - 59

    - 13 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    8—13

    13—33

    46—59

    —5—

    —20—

    —13—
    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

    8

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    564

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    90

    1050

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    8.2

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); partially decomposed organic matter; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03490. Matted layer of undecomposed or only slightly decomposed leaves and twigs.
    Oa—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior highly decomposed plant material; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03491. Highly decomposed organic matter.
    E—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine platy, and weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 10 percent by volume ? to 265-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03492. 60% flat fragments to 10 inches.
    Bw—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine and medium granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 60 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03493. 60% flat fragments to 8 inches.
    C—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior very channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 30 percent by volume ? to 265-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03494. Friable to loose moist consistence; 80% flat fragments to 10 inches.
    R—46 to 59 centimeters (18.1 to 23.2 inches); dusky red (10R 3/2) interior bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # PSU03495. Consolidated fine grained sandstone and shale bedrock; few fractured planes.