IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Manor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 490
  • User Pedon ID: 1990PA071045
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 490
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 90PA071045
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44421
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.9144444
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2891667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From Pequa, east on 324 to RR tunnel. Straight onto unnamed road (do not make left at stop). Follow along RR tracks for 1910 meters from stop sign, then go due south 180 meters
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-H3—Conestoga, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JONATHAN POLLACK, ROBERT DOBOS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, micaceous, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 45
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Manor
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/20/2014
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Manor
  • Classificaton Date - 11/12/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: drainageway
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/12/1990 ()
  • 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

    KALA

    QURU

    Kalmia latifolia

    Quercus rubra

    mountain laurel

    northern red oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    8—76

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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

    28

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    137

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    90

    1080

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    9.4

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    10.6

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior loam; 44 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03803. "although an O horizon was present, it was not described"; Field texture was a gravelly silt loam.
    Bw1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior loam; 46 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03804. Field texture was a gravelly silt loam.
    Bw2—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior fine sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03805. Field texture was a gravelly silt loam.
    Bw3—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior coarse sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 6 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03806. Field texture was a very gravelly sandy loam.
    C1—76 to 109 centimeters (29.9 to 42.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior loamy coarse sand; 77 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 4 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03807. Field texture was a extremely gravelly sandy loam.
    2C2—109 to 178 centimeters (42.9 to 70.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior; structureless single grain; 90 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # PSU03808. Field texture was a extremely gravelly sandy loam.