IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fluvaquent
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 566
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA081072
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 566
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA081072
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44505
  • 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: 41.4508333
  • Std. Longitude: -76.8508333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: BARBOURS, PA QUADRANGLE 16,600 FT SW OF LOOKOUT TOWERS 16,900 FT NW OF PROCTOR JUNCTION 75FT E OF E BRANCH WALLIS RUN ASPECT = 227 DEGREES SW
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA081—Lycoming
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41076-D7—Barbours, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Anderson, T. Craul, M. Horkey, A. Wilkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Fluvaquents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 72
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fluvaquent
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/31/1988 ()
  • 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

    BEAL2

    TSCA

    VACCI

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Tsuga canadensis

    Vaccinium

    yellow birch

    eastern hemlock

    blueberry

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—7

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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

    1

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    368

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    225

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    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.0 medium and coarse moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07230; moist when described;
    BC—7 to 19 centimeters (2.8 to 7.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 1.8 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.0 medium and coarse moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent fine prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07231; moist when described;
    C—19 to 36 centimeters (7.5 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; 10 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 3.0 medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent fine prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1); 14 percent by volume rounded ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07232; moist when described;
    Cg1—36 to 52 centimeters (14.2 to 20.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior loamy sand; 5 percent clay; single grain, and structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 3.0 medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent fine faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/6); 14 percent by volume rounded ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07233; wet when described;
    Cg2—52 to 71 centimeters (20.5 to 28.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior extremely gravelly loamy sand; 5 percent clay; structureless massive, and single grain; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 3.0 medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 11 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 70 percent by volume rounded ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07234; wet when described;
    Cg3—71 to 100 centimeters (28.0 to 39.4 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior extremely gravelly loamy sand; 5 percent clay; structureless massive, and single grain; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 3.0 medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 11 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 95 percent by volume rounded ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # PSU07235; wet when described;