IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Allenwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991PA095004
  • User Pedon ID: 91PA095004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0639
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63681
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 40.7975006
  • Std. Longitude: -75.2791672
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Plainfield Twp., 1 mile NW of Edelman; pedon is 600 feet W of Browntown Rd. in a cornfield.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA095—Northampton
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA095—Northampton County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-G3—Wind Gap, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. White, J. Castro, J. Chibirka, A. Daughtry, M. Cortes, S. Anderson, N. Churchill
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allenwood
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 25 to 152 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/9/1991
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/9/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 19
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    25—264

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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

    6

    152

    76.2

    197

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    1092

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    11.1

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    10.6

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); 99 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 15 percent clay; moderate fine granular parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; very low penetration resistance; moderate permeability; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine high-continuity interstitial and tubular and 21.0 coarse high-continuity filled with coarse material pores; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03617; moist when described;. bulk density 1.30
    Bt—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior silt loam; 23 percent clay; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine and medium distinct and 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium and coarse distinct mottles; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; high penetration resistance; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 3.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 10 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 91P03618; moist when described;. bulk density 1.55; patchy - phpvsfiid 174036; patchy - phpvsfiid 174036
    2Bt1—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); 99 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior and 1 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) interior channery loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; high penetration resistance; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 3.0 fine and medium low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 10 percent prominent clay films; 5 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-76-150 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P03619; moist when described;. bulk density 1.60; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174037; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 174037
    2Bt2—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); channery loam; slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-76-150 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P03620
    2Bt3—107 to 150 centimeters (42.1 to 59.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate and strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; high penetration resistance; slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine and fine low-continuity and 0.5 fine to coarse moderate-continuity filled with coarse material pores; 75 percent prominent clay films; 1 percent by volume well rounded 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03621; moist when described;. bulk density 1.65; continuous - phpvsfiid 174038; continuous - phpvsfiid 174038
    2Bt4—150 to 175 centimeters (59.1 to 68.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior channery clay loam; 35 percent clay; high penetration resistance; slow permeability; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03622; moist when described;. bulk density 1.65
    2Bt5—175 to 203 centimeters (68.9 to 79.9 inches); slow permeability; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03623; moist when described;
    2Bt6—203 to 264 centimeters (79.9 to 103.9 inches); channery clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate very thin platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine low-continuity pores; 75 percent prominent red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on horizontal faces of peds; 20 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments. Lab sample # 91P03624; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 174039; continuous - phpvsfiid 174039