IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lackawanna
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 605
  • User Pedon ID: 1971PA089080
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 71PA089080
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44549
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 41.0155556
  • Std. Longitude: -75.2844444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 mi N of Bartonsville on T487, 0.5 mi N of intersection with T625, 650 ft SE of old farmhouse.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA089—Monroe
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41075-A3—Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Latshaw, G. Lipscomb
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 80
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lackawanna
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lackawanna
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/1971 ()
  • 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
    • 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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    286

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    315

    1250

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    9.4

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior, pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2) interior, dry; channery loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; 25 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04659
    Bw1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 25 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04660
    Bw2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior gravelly loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04661
    Bw3—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04662
    Bx1—71 to 109 centimeters (28.0 to 42.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior and pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) cobbly loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 0.5 roots; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 1 percent medium distinct pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2); 50 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04663. Mottles are yellowish red. Prismatic structure separted by pinkish gray wedges bordered by yellowish red rinds. Pockets of loamy fine sand 3/4 to 3 inches in size that appear to be weathered sandstone fragments.
    Bx2—109 to 135 centimeters (42.9 to 53.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior and pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) cobbly loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 0.5 roots; 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium distinct pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2) and 1 percent medium distinct pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2); 50 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04664. Mottles are yellowish red. Prismatic structure separated by pinkish gray wedges bordered by yellowish red rinds. Pockets of loamy fine sand 3/4 to 3 inches in size that appear to be weathered sandstone fragments.
    Bx3—135 to 163 centimeters (53.1 to 64.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior and pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) broken face and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) cobbly sandy loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 0.5 roots; 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 65 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04665. Prismatic structure separated by pinkish gray wedges bordered by yellowish red rinds. Pockets of loamy fine sand 3/4 to 3 inches in size that appear to be weathered sandstone fragments.
    C—163 to 175 centimeters (64.2 to 68.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior very channery sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 90 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04666
    R—175 to 201 centimeters (68.9 to 79.1 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU04667. Fractured red sandstone bedrock.