IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pequea
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 483
  • User Pedon ID: 1978PA071030
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 483
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 78PA071030
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44413
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 39.9344444
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2969444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Funk farm, 0.75 N of Martieville, near Pequea Cr.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-H3—Conestoga, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Yaworski, L. Heffner, M. Imhoff, R. Cunningham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 30
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pequea
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pequea
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1978 ()
  • 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

    2GA

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    Grass, annual

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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

    17

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    91

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    90

    1000

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    10.8

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03746. Roots are fibrous
    Bw—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); black (N 2/0) interior loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03747. Roots are fibrous
    BC—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); black (N 2/0) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03748
    C1—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); 2.5Y 2/2 (2.5Y 2/2) interior and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03749
    C2—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); black (5Y 2/2) interior and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03750. Fragments are soft; color & texture vary with horizontal planes.
    C3—97 to 132 centimeters (38.2 to 52.0 inches); black (5Y 2/1) interior fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent by volume schist, graphitic fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03751. 20% soft schist; variegated.
    C4—132 to 185 centimeters (52.0 to 72.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior fine sandy loam; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 90 percent by volume schist, graphitic fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03752. 90% soft schist; weathered thinly bedded schist.
    C5—185 to 205 centimeters (72.8 to 80.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior fine sandy loam; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03753. 90% soft schist; weathered thinly bedded schist.