IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Allenwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1971PA025061
  • User Pedon ID: 1971PA025061
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 162
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 71PA025061
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43507
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 40.8527778
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6383333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 100 yds N of the visitors center at the Beltzville Dam.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA025—Carbon
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA025—Carbon County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-G6—Lehighton, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. H. Sautter and E. J. Ciolkosz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 61
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Allenwood
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allenwood
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/1971 ()
  • 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

    PHLEU

    Phleum

    timothy

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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

    2

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    232

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    200

    1200

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    9.7

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; moderate coarse granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01149. 10% gravel.
    BA—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01150. 25% gravel.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532036; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532036
    Bt1—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 70 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 35 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01151. 25% gravel.; continuous - phpvsfiid 532037; continuous - phpvsfiid 532037
    Bt2—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior gravelly clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 38 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese or iron-manganese stains; 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU01152. 40% gravel.; continuous - phpvsfiid 532038; continuous - phpvsfiid 532038
    Bt3—84 to 124 centimeters (33.1 to 48.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior very gravelly clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese or iron-manganese stains and 70 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 55 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01153. 55% gravel.; continuous - phpvsfiid 532040; continuous - phpvsfiid 532040
    Bt4—124 to 155 centimeters (48.8 to 61.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior very gravelly loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 70 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 65 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01154. 65% gravel.; continuous - phpvsfiid 532042; continuous - phpvsfiid 532042
    Bt5—155 to 190 centimeters (61.0 to 74.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior very gravelly clay loam; moderate medium blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 14 percent faint black (10YR 2/1) manganese or iron-manganese stains and 70 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 65 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01155. 65% gravel.
    Bt6—190 to 234 centimeters (74.8 to 92.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior very gravelly clay loam; weak medium blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 14 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese or iron-manganese stains and 70 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 70 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01156. 70% gravel.
    Bt7—234 to 269 centimeters (92.1 to 105.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior very gravelly clay loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 14 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese or iron-manganese stains and 70 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 70 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01157. 70% gravel.