IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duncannon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 95
  • User Pedon ID: 1968PA017004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 95
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 68PA017004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45410
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 40.2066667
  • Std. Longitude: -74.9116667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.25 mi E of Rt 413 on Tollgate Rd, past stone bridge, first right, S 876 ft along lane, E 10 ft, Middltown
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA017—Bucks
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40074-B8—Langhorne, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. B. Carey E. H. Sautter and Carl Guernsey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Duncannon
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duncannon
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.5 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: lowland
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/1968 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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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

    3

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    37

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    0

    1100

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    10.8

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00697
    Bw1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 2 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00698. Dark brown (10YR 4/3) worm holes.
    Bt—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 2 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00699. 2% rounded quartz from 0.5 to 3 inches in diameter.
    Bw2—58 to 89 centimeters (22.8 to 35.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 2 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00700. Few silt films.
    Bw3—89 to 104 centimeters (35.0 to 40.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 2 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00701
    2C1—104 to 145 centimeters (40.9 to 57.1 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior loamy fine sand; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00702
    2Cb2—145 to 183 centimeters (57.1 to 72.0 inches); loamy fine sand; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00705
    2Cnb2—145 to 183 centimeters (57.1 to 72.0 inches); loamy fine sand; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00706
    2C2—145 to 183 centimeters (57.1 to 72.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior loamy fine sand; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00703. Bands of dark brown (7.5YR 4/4); interior of sprolite is gray brown (10YR 5/2); bands 1 to 2 inches thick ares slightly sticky with higher silt content and are firm to brittle.
    2C3—183 to 221 centimeters (72.0 to 87.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior loamy fine sand; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00704