IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glenelg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955PA071016
  • User Pedon ID: S1955PA071016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955PA071016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0387
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32915
  • 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: 39.9180565
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0108337
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Two miles east of Ninepoints, 1 mile south of intersection of T970 and 36009. Mrs. H. H. Schoof farm, 25 feet west of dirt road 100 feet north of end of farm lane. Aerial photo No. AHM34-80.
  • 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: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • PSC - 30 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/9/2014
  • Classifier - A. Friend
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chester
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AHM34-80
  • 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

    KALA

    QUAL

    QUPA2

    QURU

    Carya

    Cornus

    Kalmia latifolia

    Quercus alba

    Quercus palustris

    Quercus rubra

    hybrid hickory

    dogwood

    mountain laurel

    white oak

    pin oak

    northern red oak

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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

    5

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02910
    O2—3 to 0 centimeters (1.2 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A02909. Rotted leaves.
    O1—5 to 3 centimeters (2.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A02908. Not sampled; mixed hardwood leaves.
    A2—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium granular, and platy structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02911
    B1—25 to 30 centimeters (9.8 to 11.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02912
    B21t—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02913
    B22t—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A02914
    B3—69 to 97 centimeters (27.2 to 38.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) channery silty clay loam; weak subangular blocky, and platy structure; friable; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A02915
    C—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and very dark gray (N 3/), weathered bedrock; yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on rock fragments; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A02916. Schistose weathered rock.