IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Howard
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007NY123-051
  • User Pedon ID: S07NY123-051
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0170
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19701
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.5061111
  • Std. Longitude: -76.9352798
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Glenora Farms (Jeff Morris operator).
  • Map Unit: Hu—Howard gravelly loam, 0 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: New York
  • County: NY123—Yates
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY123—Yates County, New York
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42076-E8—Dundee, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt Havens and Dean Shields
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Glossic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 51
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Howard
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Glossic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/13/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/13/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 10
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    glossic horizon

    ochric epipedon

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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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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; gravelly loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine and fine roots; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01146; observed in pit, small
    B/E—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); 90 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) gravelly loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01147; observed in pit, small
    Bt/E—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); 5 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 35 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01148; observed in pit, small
    Bt—61 to 138 centimeters (24.0 to 54.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 50 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01149; observed in pit, small
    C—138 to 153 centimeters (54.3 to 60.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) extremely gravelly loam; massive; friable; 60 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 08N01150; observed in pit, small