IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duffield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 475
  • User Pedon ID: 1977PA071018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 475
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 77PA071018
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44404
  • 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: 40.1069444
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2408333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Weaver farm; 0.25 mi S of Oregon Farm Dairy, near Butter Rd, to farmstead, 450 ft E, 250 ft N of farm house.
  • 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: I. Ratcliff and B. Carter
  • 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 #: 18
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Duffield
  • PSC - 28 to 78 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 - 6/14/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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: 6/14/1977 ()
  • 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

    TRAE

    Triticum aestivum

    common wheat

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—163

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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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    88

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    0

    1000

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    10.8

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    Ap1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03673. Few pockets of fibrous material.
    Ap2—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03674
    Bt1—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films and 14 percent black (N 2/0) coats on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03675. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1312600; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1312600
    Bt2—53 to 86 centimeters (20.9 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds and 14 percent black (N 2/0) coats on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03676. continuous - phpvsfiid 1312603; continuous - phpvsfiid 1312603
    Bt3—86 to 117 centimeters (33.9 to 46.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03677. continuous - phpvsfiid 1312599; continuous - phpvsfiid 1312599
    Bt4—117 to 137 centimeters (46.1 to 53.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03678. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1312602; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1312602
    Bt5—137 to 163 centimeters (53.9 to 64.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03679
    C1—163 to 196 centimeters (64.2 to 77.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03680
    C2—196 to 221 centimeters (77.2 to 87.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03681