IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sewell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 242
  • User Pedon ID: 1973PA033020
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 242
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 73PA033020
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44146
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 41.0580556
  • Std. Longitude: -78.4402778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 1/2 mi N of Clearfield in Lawrence Twp, 1.1 mi N of US 322 on Flegal Rd to the strip mine Rd and 0.5 mi into stripmine.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA033—Clearfield
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41078-A4—Clearfield, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Ciolkosz, D. Grice, J. Haagen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, acid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sewell
  • Classificaton Date - 5/3/2023
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Minesoil
  • Classificaton Date - 5/23/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/23/1973 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - culturally induced barren
  • 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

    PIST

    PIVI2

    POTR5

    Pinus strobus

    Pinus virginiana

    Populus tremuloides

    eastern white pine

    Virginia pine

    quaking aspen

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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

    15

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    469

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    135

    1050

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    8.8

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior very channery loam; 46 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 45 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01921
    Bw—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior very channery clay loam; 28 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 50 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01922. Common yellowish brown (10YR 3/5) variegations.
    C1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior extremely channery loam; 44 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 13 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels and 38 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments; 80 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01923
    C2—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior extremely channery coarse sandy loam; 59 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 13 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 14 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels and 14 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments; 85 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01924. Common medium dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) variegations.
    C3—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior extremely channery coarse sandy loam; 57 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 12 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 14 percent faint clay films on rock fragments; 85 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01925. Common medium yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) variegations.
    C4—112 to 145 centimeters (44.1 to 57.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior extremely channery loam; 50 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 12 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on rock fragments; 85 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01926. Common medium yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) variegations.
    C5—145 to 178 centimeters (57.1 to 70.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior extremely channery loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels and 14 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments; 85 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01927. Few medium yellowish brown variegations.