IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duffield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 474
  • User Pedon ID: 1977PA071017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 474
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 77PA071017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44403
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 40.1047222
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2102778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.5 mi W of Center Square, to farmstead on Ctr Sqr Rd, 80 ft N of cister at farm house; Stoltzfus farm.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA071—Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-A2—Leola, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Ciolkosz, S. Stanley, A. Kuhl
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Duffield
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/2015
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duffield
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/1977 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    132 - 152

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—30

    30—84

    132—152

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    —54—

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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

    3

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    102

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    180

    1000

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    10.8

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; 2 percent by volume quartz fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03666
    BA—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03667
    Bt1—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 70 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03668. continuous - phpvsfiid 1312596; continuous - phpvsfiid 1312596
    Bt2—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03669. patchy - phpvsfiid 1312597; patchy - phpvsfiid 1312597
    BC—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03670. patchy - phpvsfiid 1312598; patchy - phpvsfiid 1312598
    C—102 to 132 centimeters (40.2 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03671. Friable to firm moist consistence.
    R—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # PSU03672. Hard shaly limestone.