IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellsboro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 560
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA081066
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 560
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA081066
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44499
  • 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: 41.5777778
  • Std. Longitude: -76.8477778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 145 DEGREES
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA081—Lycoming
  • 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, acid Typic Fragiochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 66
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellsboro
  • PSC - 25 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/3/1988 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous 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

    2GA

    SOLID

    VACCI

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    Solidago

    Vaccinium

    Grass, annual

    goldenrod

    blueberry

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    fragipan

    0—15

    15—69

    69—69

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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

    7

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    674

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine crumb structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07187; moist when described;
    Bw1—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior loam; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 38 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) organic stains on surfaces along root channels; 10 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07188; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 534134; continuous - phpvsfiid 534134
    Bw2—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior channery loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 38 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) organic stains on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent fine faint light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) and 11 percent fine and medium faint reddish brown (5YR 5/4); 20 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07189; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 534135; continuous - phpvsfiid 534135
    Bx1—69 to 95 centimeters (27.2 to 37.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior channery loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; slow permeability; 0.1 very fine and fine roots throughout; 11 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 20 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07190; moist when described;
    Bx2—95 to 143 centimeters (37.4 to 56.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior channery loam; 18 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; slow permeability; 14 percent prominent pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) coats on vertical faces of peds and 14 percent prominent black (N 2/0) black stains on all faces of peds; 11 percent medium distinct pinkish gray (5YR 7/2) and 11 percent fine and medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 25 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # PSU07191; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 534136; continuous - phpvsfiid 534137; continuous - phpvsfiid 534136; continuous - phpvsfiid 534137
    Bx3—143 to 200 centimeters (56.3 to 78.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior channery loam; 18 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; slow permeability; 14 percent prominent pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) coats on vertical faces of peds and 14 percent prominent black (N 2/0) black stains on all faces of peds; 11 percent medium distinct pinkish gray (5YR 7/2) and 11 percent fine and medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 25 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # PSU07192; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 534138; continuous - phpvsfiid 534139; continuous - phpvsfiid 534138; continuous - phpvsfiid 534139