IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sewell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 244
  • User Pedon ID: 1973PA033022
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 244
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 73PA033022
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44148
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 41.0633333
  • Std. Longitude: -78.4447222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2.5 mi N of Clearfield, 1.9 mi N of US 322 on Fleagal 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, J. Haagen, D. Grice
  • 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 #: 22
  • 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

    POTR5

    PRPE2

    Populus tremuloides

    Prunus pensylvanica

    quaking aspen

    pin cherry

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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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    485

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    135

    1050

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    8.7

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior very channery coarse sandy loam; 63 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 70 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01935
    Bw—8 to 38 centimeters (3.1 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior very channery coarse sandy loam; 56 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 85 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01936
    C1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior very channery coarse sandy loam; 62 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 10 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 85 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01937
    C2—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior extremely channery coarse sandy loam; 57 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 11 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 85 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01938. Few yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coatings on rock fragments.
    C3—86 to 117 centimeters (33.9 to 46.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior extremely channery sandy loam; 54 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 13 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 85 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01939. Few yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coatings on rock fragments.
    C4—117 to 157 centimeters (46.1 to 61.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior very channery loam; 50 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 11 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly sticky, nonplastic; 85 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01940. Few yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coatings on rock fragments.