IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lordstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 555
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA081061
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 555
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA081061
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44493
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 41.5544444
  • Std. Longitude: -76.8591667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 320 DEGREES
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA081—Lycoming
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. Ellenberger, M. Cessna, R. Knight, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, acid Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 61
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lordstown
  • PSC - 25 to 70 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: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: undulating
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/1988 ()
  • 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

    MYAS

    PRSE2

    TSCA

    Acer rubrum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Myrica aspleniifolia

    Prunus serotina

    Tsuga canadensis

    red maple

    American beech

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    black cherry

    eastern hemlock

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—14

    14—36

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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

    4

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    631

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    315

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    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior; weak very fine and fine crumb structure; carbonates present, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07158; moist when described;
    E—2 to 16 centimeters (0.8 to 6.3 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior channery sandy loam; 10 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 4.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.8 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07159; moist when described;
    Bw1—16 to 38 centimeters (6.3 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior channery loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07160; moist when described;
    Bw2—38 to 72 centimeters (15.0 to 28.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior stony sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 fine to coarse roots between peds; 2.5 medium low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 10 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume subrounded ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07161; moist when described;
    R—72 to 82 centimeters (28.3 to 32.3 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07162