IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duncannon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96
  • User Pedon ID: 68PA017005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 96
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 68PA017005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45411
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 40.2705556
  • Std. Longitude: -74.8844444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 220 ft N and 10 deg W of E corner of a Stone garage on Siddle Estate. 4.5 mi E of Newton, Upper Makefield Twp
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA017—Bucks
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40074-C8—Lambertville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. B. Carey, E. H. Sautter and Carl Guernsey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Duncannon
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duncannon
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.67 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.83 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.83 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.83 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: lowland
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/1968 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous 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

    2FORB

    POPR

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    Poa pratensis

    Forb (herbaceous, not grass nor grasslike)

    Kentucky bluegrass

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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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    67

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    180

    1100

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    10.7

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00707. Occasional soft red shale.
    BA—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00708
    Bt1—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00709. Silt films on larger peds; occasional coarse fragments.
    Bt2—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 2 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00710. Silt films on larger peds; friable displaced.
    BC—86 to 114 centimeters (33.9 to 44.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak coarse platy structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 0.5 roots; 2 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00711. Friable displaced; silt or clay films in pores.
    2C1—114 to 124 centimeters (44.9 to 48.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 11 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and 11 percent medium distinct brown (10YR 5/3); 20 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00712. Silt or clay films in pores.
    2C2—124 to 142 centimeters (48.8 to 55.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior; 30 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00713. Silt or clay films in pores.
    3C3—142 to 173 centimeters (55.9 to 68.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00714