IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bucks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956PA029008
  • User Pedon ID: S1956PA029008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956PA029008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0368
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32896
  • 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: 40.1733322
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6038895
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Chester County, Pennsylvania. Sunny Slope Dairy Farm No. 2. East Vincent Twp., 1/2 mile north of Hiestand, 300 feet west of barn. Aerial photo AHK-68-25.
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Merrill Kunkle, E.J. Pedersen, F.G. Loughry, J.J. Noll, J.B. Carey, G.M. Phibbs.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bucks
  • PSC - 23 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/2014
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penn
  • PSC - 23 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/31/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/31/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AHK-68-25
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    TRPR2

    Trifolium pratense

    red clover

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    23—53

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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

    10

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A02736
    Bt1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; prominent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02737
    Bt2—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; prominent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02738
    BC—53 to 61 centimeters (20.9 to 24.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02739
    C—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse platy structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A02740. Parent material is Triassic shale and arkosic sandstone containing considerable weathered sandstone.