IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lindside
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993PA057014
  • User Pedon ID: 93PA057014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0747
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66090
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 39.9047203
  • Std. Longitude: -78.0152740
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 miles south of McConnellsburg, PA; 1000 feet west of US 522 and T.381, along Big Cave Creek.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA057—Fulton
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA057—Fulton County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39078-H1—Meadow Grounds, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WRK, NBE
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed Fluvaquentic Eutrochrepts
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lindside
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Fluvaquentic Eutrochrepts
  • PSC - 46 to 97 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/1993
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Bedrock: h limestone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/16/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 35
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    46—97

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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

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    Ap1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); 80 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    Ap2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; 12 percent clay; 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine and medium distinct irregular mottles; moderate medium granular, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 1 percent fine and medium irregular very dark gray (10YR 3/1) dark concretions between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, phenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    BA—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; silt loam; 18 percent clay; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium distinct irregular and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct irregular mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 1 percent fine and medium irregular very dark gray (10YR 3/1) dark concretions between peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P05116; moist when described;
    BT1—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent fine and medium irregular very dark gray (10YR 3/1) dark concretions between peds; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone-sandstone fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, phenol red; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 176662; patchy - phpvsfiid 176662
    BT2—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine and medium prominent irregular mottles; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent medium irregular black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions between peds; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone-sandstone fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P05117; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 176663; patchy - phpvsfiid 176663
    C—97 to 165 centimeters (38.2 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy clay loam; 25 percent clay; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium prominent irregular and 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium distinct irregular mottles; massive; hard, firm, weakly cemented by iron, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; semideformable; slow permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity pores; skeletans and 5 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red.; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 176664; patchy - phpvsfiid 176664