IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glenelg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 480
  • User Pedon ID: 1978PA071027
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 480
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 78PA071027
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44410
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 39.7394444
  • Std. Longitude: -76.1927778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2.5 mi S of Wakefield on Pilottown Rd, 100 ft W of Rd, Kirk farm.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-F2—Conowingo Dam, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Ciolkosz, I. Ratcliff, B. Custer, E. Merkle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 27
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • PSC - 25 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/10/2016
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/1978 ()
  • 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

    MESA

    Medicago sativa

    alfalfa

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    25—69

    —25—

    —44—
    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

    8

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    131

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    135

    1100

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    10.7

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; 3 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03718
    Bt1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds and brown (7.5YR 5/4) coats; 3 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03719. Penn Dot; patchy - phpvsfiid 1491762; patchy - phpvsfiid 1491762
    Bt2—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coats and 14 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 6 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 6 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03720. patchy - phpvsfiid 1491764; patchy - phpvsfiid 1491764
    BC—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 14 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 6 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 6 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03721. patchy - phpvsfiid 1491767; patchy - phpvsfiid 1491767
    C1—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior silt loam; weak medium platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 2 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03722
    C2—107 to 135 centimeters (42.1 to 53.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) interior and reddish yellow (5YR 7/6) interior and pink (5YR 7/3) interior silt loam; weak medium platy, and structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 4 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03723. Penn Dot.
    C3—135 to 147 centimeters (53.1 to 57.9 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) interior and reddish yellow (5YR 7/6) interior silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03724. Banded reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) and pink (5YR 7/3).
    C4—147 to 165 centimeters (57.9 to 65.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior and light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03725. Few roots to 60 inches.
    C5—165 to 196 centimeters (65.0 to 77.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior silt loam; weak coarse platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 12 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 13 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03726. With black (10YR 2/1) something-or-other.
    C6—196 to 234 centimeters (77.2 to 92.1 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) interior silt loam; weak medium and coarse platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; gray (10YR 5/1) coats; 12 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 13 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03727