IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Steinsburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 11
  • User Pedon ID: 1980PA001020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 80PA001020
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43449
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 39.7880556
  • Std. Longitude: -77.1330556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 100 ft SW of Rt. 01013, 1.5 mi SE of Bonneauville.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA001—Adams
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39077-G2—Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Kuhl, A. Backer, and T. Hann
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Lithic Eutrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Steinsburg
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Steinsburg
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/11/1980 ()
  • 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
    • 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

    1

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    189

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    0

    1050

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    10.6

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) interior, dry; silt loam, fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00062
    Ap2—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak coarse platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00063
    Bw—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior sandy loam; weak coarse platy, and weak coarse blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00064. patchy - phpvsfiid 531250; patchy - phpvsfiid 531250
    BC—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) interior loamy sand; weak coarse platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00065. patchy - phpvsfiid 531251; patchy - phpvsfiid 531251
    R—51 to 75 centimeters (20.1 to 29.5 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU00066