IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lordstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 520
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA079001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 520
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA079001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44455
  • 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: 41.3416667
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2302778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 195 DEGREES
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA079—Luzerne
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Knight, M. Cessna, N. Ellenberger, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lordstown
  • PSC - 25 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: valley side
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/8/1988 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • 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

    ACRU

    FAGR

    TSCA

    Acer rubrum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Tsuga canadensis

    red maple

    American beech

    eastern hemlock

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—22

    22—84

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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

    47

    587

    180

    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07117; moist when described;
    Oe—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) interior; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07118; moist when described;
    E—6 to 28 centimeters (2.4 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) interior channery sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 4.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.8 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 30 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07119; moist when described;
    Bs—28 to 34 centimeters (11.0 to 13.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior channery loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 4.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.8 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 30 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07120; moist when described;
    Bw1—34 to 51 centimeters (13.4 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior channery loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.6 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 1 percent fine and medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6); 25 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07121; moist when described;
    Bw2—51 to 90 centimeters (20.1 to 35.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior very channery sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.1 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.6 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 14 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) iron stains on rock fragments; 60 percent fine and medium distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3); 35 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07122; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 533840; patchy - phpvsfiid 533840
    R—90 to 100 centimeters (35.4 to 39.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07123