IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 496
  • User Pedon ID: 1990PA071055
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 496
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 90PA071055
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44427
  • 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: 39.9122222
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2908333
  • 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 along RR tracks for 2000 meters, then go due south 580 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 AND ROBERT DOBOS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 55
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chester
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/21/2014
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Manor
  • Classificaton Date - 11/13/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/13/1990 ()
  • 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

    KALA

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Kalmia latifolia

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    mountain laurel

    northern red oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    262 - 280

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

    ochric epipedon

    agric horizon

    lithic contact

    0—46

    46—127

    262—280

    —46—

    —81—

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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

    17

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    177

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    0

    1080

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    9.3

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    10.5

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03871
    E—5 to 28 centimeters (2.0 to 11.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior very gravelly silt loam; 40 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03872. Field texture was a very gravelly silt loam.
    BE—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior very gravelly silt loam; 46 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03873. Field texture was a very gravelly silt loam.
    Bt1—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior extremely cobbly silt loam; 48 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03874. Field texture was a extremely cobbly silt loam.
    2Bt2—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; 43 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 23 percent clay; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03875. rock controlled structure; Field texture was a silt loam.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162640; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162640
    2Bt3—94 to 127 centimeters (37.0 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior extremely cobbly sandy loam; 56 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 17 percent clay; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 38 percent faint clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03876. rock controlled structure; Field texture was a extremely cobbly sandy loam.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162642; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162642
    2BC—127 to 168 centimeters (50.0 to 66.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior extremely cobbly sandy loam; 53 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 19 percent clay; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 14 percent faint clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03877. rock controlled structure; Field texture was a extremely cobbly sandy loam.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162639; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162639
    2C1—168 to 213 centimeters (66.1 to 83.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior extremely cobbly sandy loam; 69 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 10 percent clay; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 14 percent faint clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03878. rock controlled structure; Field texture was a extremely cobbly sandy loam.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162641; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162641
    2C2—213 to 262 centimeters (83.9 to 103.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior extremely cobbly sandy loam; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03879
    2R—262 to 280 centimeters (103.1 to 110.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU03880