IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gladstone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 330
  • User Pedon ID: S1959PA045002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 330
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 59PA045002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44244
  • 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: 39.8866667
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5433333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Golf course, 2000 ft N of Painter's Crossroads, 100 ft E and 75 ft N of entrance on Rt 322.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA045—Delaware
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39075-H5—West Chester, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Matelski, W. Kunkle, F. Blest, C. Engle
  • 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: PSU
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gladstone
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Classifier - A. Friend
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chester
  • Classificaton Date - 4/23/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/23/1959 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - crop shrubs
  • 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

    2FORB

    FERU2

    LOAR10

    POPR

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    Festuca rubra

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Poa pratensis

    Forb (herbaceous, not grass nor grasslike)

    red fescue

    tall fescue

    Kentucky bluegrass

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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

    4

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    130

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    135

    1100

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    10.7

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02484
    BA—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02485
    Bt1—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; prominent clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02486. 10% schist fragments.
    Bt2—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) interior loam; weak medium blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; 20 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02487. 20% schist fragments.
    Bt3—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) interior loam; weak fine platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films and 14 percent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02488. Some subangular blocky structure near top.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164510; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1164510
    BC—84 to 94 centimeters (33.1 to 37.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior loam; weak medium platy, and fine platy structure; friable; 70 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02489
    C1—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02490
    C2—124 to 163 centimeters (48.8 to 64.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior loamy fine sand; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02491. Similar saprolite continues to undetermined depth.