IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Manor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956PA029003
  • User Pedon ID: S1956PA029003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0380
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32908
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 39.9185528
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5865611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Chester County, Pennsylvania. H.B. Spackman farm, Thornbury Twp., 1/2 mile west of Darlington Corners on Street Road. In field south of woods. 150 feet south of maple tree in south edge of woods about 225 feet west of southeastern corner of woods. Aerial photo AHK-44-89.
  • Map Unit: CdB—Chester silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA029—Chester
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA029—Chester County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39075-H5—West Chester, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F.G. Loughry, E.J. Pedersen, J.J. Noll, J.B. Carey, and G.M. Phibbs.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, micaceous, mesic Typic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Manor
  • PSC - 25 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2014
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Manor
  • Classificaton Date - 9/16/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from mica schist
  • Landscape: upland piedmont
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: schist, mica at 71cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/16/1956 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—33

    33—51

    —33—

    —18—
    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

    12

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    92

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    243

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A2843; moist when described;
    E—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; clay films on faces of peds and clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A2844; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 235892; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 235892
    Bw—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent very coarse mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A2845; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 235894; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 235894
    C—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A2846; moist when described;. Mixed dark brown and reddish brown rotted gneiss and schist.