IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hartleton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957PA025008
  • User Pedon ID: S1957PA025008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 147
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA025008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43490
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 40.7902778
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7822222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Midway between Rt 443 and Rt 13037 on Twp Rt 373; 35' W of Rd midway between high tension powerline wires.
  • Map Unit: MoE2—Montevallo channery silt loam, 25 to 35 percent slopes, moderately eroded
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA025—Carbon
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA025—Carbon County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-G7—Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, G. Fisher, R. Matelski, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hartleton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Montevallo
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, subactive, thermic, shallow Typic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/1957 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    SOLAN

    Solanum

    nightshade

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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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    274

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    135

    1150

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    9.6

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky; 20 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01057. "20% sandstone and shale fragments up to 2x1x1/5""; some fungus myclium; thickness ranges from 6 to 13""."
    BA—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01058. "30% coarse fragments up to 2x1x1/5""; thickness ranges from 3 to 5""."; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531971; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531971
    Bt1—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; faint clay films; 30 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01059. "About 30% coarse fragments up to 2x1x1/5""; thickness ranges from 7 to 12""."; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531972; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531972
    Bt2—58 to 69 centimeters (22.8 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery silt loam; friable, slightly sticky; faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01060. "40% coarse fragments to 2x1x1/5""; structure determined by arrangement of coarse fragments; thickness ranges from 2 to 6""."; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531973; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531973
    BC—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior extremely channery loam; friable, slightly sticky; faint clay films; 80 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01061. "About 80% coarse fragments up to 2x1x1/5""; structure determined by layering of fragments; clay films are on stones; thickness ranges from 2 to 7""."; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531974; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531974
    C1—81 to 99 centimeters (31.9 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery loam; friable, slightly sticky; 90 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01062. "About 90% coarse fragments up to 2x1x1/5"" in diameter; structure determined by layering of fragments with clay coatings on upper side of stones; thickness ranges from 5 to 10""."
    C2—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam, clay; slightly sticky; 95 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01063. Silt and clay coatings on rock fragments which make up about 95% of total material.