IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pequea
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 484
  • User Pedon ID: 1978PA071031
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 484
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 78PA071031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44414
  • 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: 39.9930556
  • Std. Longitude: -76.3416667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Shenk farm. 0.7 mi SE of Millersville in loop of Conestoga Cr. just W of peach orchard.
  • 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: Mike Yawortski, J. Heffner, M. Imhoff, R. Cunningham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Eutrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 31
  • 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
  • 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

    MESA

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    Medicago sativa

    Grass, annual

    alfalfa

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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

    22

    —

    —

    79

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    270

    1000

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    —

    —

    —

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    10.9

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 5 percent by volume schist, graphitic fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03754. Less than 5% coarse fragments.
    Bw—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 5 percent by volume schist, graphitic fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03755. Less than 5% fragments; areas of strong brown (7.5YR 4/6).
    BC—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 5 percent by volume schist, graphitic fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03756. Less than 5% fragments.
    C1—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5 percent by volume schist, graphitic fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03757. Less than 5% fragments.
    C2—89 to 132 centimeters (35.0 to 52.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume schist, graphitic fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03758. Less than 5% fragments.
    R—132 to 145 centimeters (52.0 to 57.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU03759. Not sampled.