IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Conestoga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955PA071012
  • User Pedon ID: S1955PA071012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955PA071012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0391
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32919
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 40.0230713
  • Std. Longitude: -76.4390945
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. One mile northeast Manorville, 1-1/2 miles south Mountville 8,000 feet east southeast Gott Allely Church, 110 feet north and 90 feet west of southeast corner of woods. Aerial photo No. R-1-09.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA071—Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F.G. Loughry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Conestoga
  • PSC - 25 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/6/2023
  • Classifier - Ben Marshall
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - thirteenth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chester
  • Classificaton Date - 9/19/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/19/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    CORNU

    QUAL

    Carya

    Cornus

    Quercus alba

    hybrid hickory

    dogwood

    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

    0—15

    15—82

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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

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A02943. Not sampled; mixed hardwood leaves.
    O2—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02944. Black (10YR 2/1) rotted leaf litter mixed with some wormcasts and granules of mineral soil.
    A1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A02945
    A2—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02946
    B1t—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02947
    B21t—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02948
    B22t—66 to 82 centimeters (26.0 to 32.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02949
    B3—82 to 94 centimeters (32.3 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A02950
    C—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) weathered bedrock; weak fine platy structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A02951. Micaceous limestone schist.