IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hollinger
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 56PA029004
  • User Pedon ID: 56PA029004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 56PA029004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0362
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32890
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 39.9527931
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6557388
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Chester County, Pennsylvania. Thomas Harney farm, West Bradford Twp., 1/2 mile east of Marshallton on hill near northwestern corner of farms. 400 feet NW of plantation of pines, 325 feet south of sycamore tree. Aerial photo AHK-48-70.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA029—Chester
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA029—Chester County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Merrill Kunkle, F.G. Loughry, E.J. Pedersen, J.J. Noll, J.B. Carey, and C.M. Phibbs.
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hollinger
  • PSC - 20 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/2002
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hollinger
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/12/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AHK-48-70
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    POA

    TARAX

    Poa

    Taraxacum

    bluegrass

    dandelion

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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

    8

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A2693. Channery
    B21t—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films on faces of peds and organic stains in root channels and/or pores and 10 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A2694. Many earthworm burrows.
    B22t—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A2695
    B3—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds and 21 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, black stains on faces of peds; 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A2696. Contains some gray micaceous fragments of weathered schist.
    C1—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A2697. Contains streaks of saprolite.
    C2—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) and gray (5YR 6/1) loam; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A2698. Streaked reddish brown and gray loam consisting of saprolite with horizontal schistose banding.