IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brownsburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991PA017005
  • User Pedon ID: 91PA017005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0339
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64578
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 40.3102760
  • Std. Longitude: -74.9247208
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Bucks Co. PA, Makefield Township, Soil Survey Sheet #49, 3200 feet SSW of intersection of Brownsburg Road and US Route 32 (River Road), progress along Brownsburg Road 3300 feet from US Rt. 32 to a field lane to the E, 880 feet E then 100 feet S.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA017—Bucks
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA017—Bucks County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40074-C8—Lambertville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Edgar White, Soil Correlator, Scott W. Anderson, Party Leader
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brownsburg
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/18/2008
  • Classifier - John Chibirka
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duncannon tax
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits derived from sandstone and shale and/or residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: mountainside
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 49
  • Microrelief Elevation: 3
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    142 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—25

    25—112

    142—253

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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

    2

    152

    15.2

    44

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    180

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    10.6

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    11.1

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior very fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, friable, very weak, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02080; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior very fine sandy loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderate, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 3 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fine cylindrical worm casts; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02081; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Hue outside Range in characteristics.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 239737; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 239737
    Bt2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior very fine sandy loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderate, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.8 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; brown (7.5YR 5/2), moist, skeletans on bottom faces of peds and 4 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02082; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Value outside range in characteristics.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 239738; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 239738
    2Btb1—76 to 112 centimeters (29.9 to 44.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior very channery loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, strong, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.8 fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 3 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 45 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02083; moist when described; observed in pit, small. value outside range in characteristics.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 239740; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 239740
    2Cr—112 to 142 centimeters (44.1 to 55.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior extremely channery silt loam; 22 percent clay; massive; extremely hard, very firm, extremely strong, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately slow permeability; 11.0 very fine and fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 3 percent faint dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 80 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 239741; patchy - phpvsfiid 239741
    2R—142 to 253 centimeters (55.9 to 99.6 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) interior; moderately slow permeability; weakly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small