IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glenville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956PA029013
  • User Pedon ID: S1956PA029013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0383
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32911
  • 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: 39.9986267
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5846252
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Chester County, Pennsylvania. Ira Hicks farm, West Goshen Township, in alfalfa field 200 feet north of woods on West Chester Airport property, 150 feet west of township route 464.
  • Map Unit: GnB2—GLENVILLE SILT LOAM, 3 TO 8 PERCENT SLOPES, MODERATELY ERODED
  • 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: W.M. Kunkle and R. Zimmerman.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Aquic 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 #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenville
  • PSC - 23 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/2013
  • Classifier - A. Friend
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenville
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from mica schist
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: schist, mica
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    weakly coherent

    46 - 86

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—23

    23—46

    46—86

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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

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A02868
    Bt1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films on faces of peds and organic stains in root channels and/or pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02869. Numerous root and earthworm channels.
    Btg2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 21 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A02870. Some root and earthworm channels.
    BCg—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; pale brown (10YR 6/3) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; coats on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02871
    CBg—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; gray (10YR 6/1) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) mottles; weak fine and medium granular, and weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02872
    C—102 to 157 centimeters (40.2 to 61.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; weak fine platy structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A02873. This horizon is partially weathered mica schist.