IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Doylestown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 102
  • User Pedon ID: 1968PA017011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 102
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 68PA017011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43441
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 40.2577778
  • Std. Longitude: -74.9133333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 mi N of Newton, Rt 522, Pole 307 L.M.T from center of Rd, 358 ft N to tringular corner of field
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA017—Bucks
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40074-C8—Lambertville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B.B. Carey, A.D. Backer and R.L. Cunningham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed Typic Fragiaqualfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Doylestown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Doylestown
  • Classificaton Date - 6/20/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: lowland
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/1968 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous 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

    2FORB

    2GA

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    Forb (herbaceous, not grass nor grasslike)

    Grass, annual

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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

    1

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    82

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    0

    1100

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    10.6

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00756. Stain of dark brown (7.5YR 4/4) along root channels.
    Btg—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) interior silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and fine platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 60 percent coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and 60 percent coarse prominent gray (5Y 5/1); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00757; wet, satiated when described;
    Btgx1—38 to 46 centimeters (15.0 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and fine platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 0.5 roots; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels and manganese or iron-manganese stains; 11 percent medium prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 11 percent medium distinct gray (5Y 6/1); 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00758; wet, satiated when described;. Prism face light gray (7.5YR 6/2); silt and clay films on prisms.
    Btgx2—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and weak medium platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 0.5 roots; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 11 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and 11 percent medium distinct gray (5Y 6/1); 3 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00759; wet, satiated when described;. Prism face light gray (7.5YR 6/2). Silt and clay films on prisms.
    2Btgx3—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face silt loam; weak medium platy, and weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 0.5 roots; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels and 38 percent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains; 1 percent medium distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 1 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8); 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00760; wet, satiated when described;. Prism face of light gray brown (7.5YR 6/2); silt and clay films on prisms.
    2Bgx—94 to 130 centimeters (37.0 to 51.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and fine platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 0.5 roots; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels and 14 percent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains; 1 percent medium distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 1 percent medium distinct brown (10YR 5/3); 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00761; wet, satiated when described;. Silt coats on ped faces.
    2Bx1—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and weak medium platy structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium distinct pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) and 1 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8); 75 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00762; wet, satiated when described;. Largest flags from stone line.
    2Bx2—152 to 196 centimeters (59.8 to 77.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 95 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00763; wet, satiated when described;. "Fragments 0.25 to 2 inches; texture is shale, some yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) clay loam on shale in upper portion; structure obscured by coarse fragments."