IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duffield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955PA071006
  • User Pedon ID: S1955PA071006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955PA071006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0369
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32897
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 40.0858345
  • Std. Longitude: -76.1441650
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 3/4 mile southeast of Bareville, in woodlot on Titus Hess farm. North edge of woodlot 20 feet from field. Aerial photo No. R-5-13.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA071—Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F.G. Loughry.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Duffield
  • PSC - 49 to 87 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/26/2015
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duffield
  • PSC - 9 to 39 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    CARYA

    QUAL

    Carya

    Quercus alba

    hybrid hickory

    white oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    1—49

    49—87

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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

    4

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    Oe—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 40A02741. Not sampled; dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) leaf mold.
    A—1 to 14 centimeters (0.4 to 5.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02742
    E—14 to 37 centimeters (5.5 to 14.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02743
    BE—37 to 49 centimeters (14.6 to 19.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02744
    Bt1—49 to 72 centimeters (19.3 to 28.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02745
    Bt2—72 to 87 centimeters (28.3 to 34.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; coats on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02746
    BCt—87 to 110 centimeters (34.3 to 43.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A02747
    C—110 to 143 centimeters (43.3 to 56.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6); weak coarse platy structure; firm; 1 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A02748. Weathered limestone.