IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 495
  • User Pedon ID: 1990PA071052
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 495
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 90PA071052
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44426
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 39.9083333
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2902778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From Pequa, east on 324 to RR tunnel. Straight onto unnamed road (do not turn left at stop sign). From stop sign follow alongside RR tracks for 1980 meters, then go due south 580 meters
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA071—Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-H3—Conestoga, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JONATHAN POLLACK AND ROBERT DOBOS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 52
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chester
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Classifier - A. Friend
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chester
  • Classificaton Date - 11/12/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • 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: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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

    ACRU

    CARYA

    KALA

    POLYS

    QUPR2

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Carya

    Kalmia latifolia

    Polystichum

    Quercus prinus

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    hybrid hickory

    mountain laurel

    hollyfern

    chestnut oak

    northern red oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—33

    33—160

    33—48

    48—97

    97—160

    —33—

    —127—

    —15—

    —51—

    —63—
    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

    6

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    192

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    45

    1080

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    9.2

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    10.4

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03862. "although an O horizon was present, it was not described"
    E—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03863
    BE—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03864
    2Bt1—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on rock fragments; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03865. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164220; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164220
    3Bt2—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior gravelly clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 38 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 38 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03866. stone line at top of this horizon; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164221; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164222; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164221; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164222
    3Bt3—69 to 97 centimeters (27.2 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 70 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 70 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03867. continuous - phpvsfiid 1164223; continuous - phpvsfiid 1164224; continuous - phpvsfiid 1164223; continuous - phpvsfiid 1164224
    4Bt4—97 to 119 centimeters (38.2 to 46.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior very gravelly sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak thin platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 14 percent faint clay films on rock fragments; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03868. clay bridging between some rock fragments; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164225; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164225
    4Bt5—119 to 160 centimeters (46.9 to 63.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior very gravelly sandy clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03869
    5C—160 to 196 centimeters (63.0 to 77.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior extremely stony silt loam; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # PSU03870. rock controlled structure