IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sassafras
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 334
  • User Pedon ID: S1959PA045012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 334
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 59PA045012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44248
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 39.8472222
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5383333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 125 ft N of Delaware St Line, 1500 ft E of Rt 202 near a private road on the state line.
  • Map Unit: GeB—Glenelg channery silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA045—Delaware
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA045—Delaware County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39075-G5—Wilmington North, Delaware

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Kunkle, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sassafras
  • PSC - 20 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2016
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sassafras
  • Classificaton Date - 10/29/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy fluviomarine deposits over mica shchist
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/29/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous 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

    ACRU

    CASC11

    LITU

    RHUS

    SAAL5

    Acer rubrum

    Carex scoparia

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Rhus

    Sassafras albidum

    red maple

    broom sedge

    tuliptree

    sumac

    sassafras

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—25

    25—69

    69—173

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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

    5

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    119

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    45

    1100

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    10.8

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 5.0 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02509
    A—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02510
    Bt1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior gravelly loam; friable, slightly sticky; 0.5 roots; 70 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02511. With 30% weak fine subangular blocky structure.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1472531; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1472531
    Bt2—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; 0.5 roots; 70 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02512. 30-40% fine quartz gravel.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1472528; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1472528
    2BC1—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very channery sandy clay loam; subangular blocky, and platy structure; friable, slightly sticky; 0.5 roots; 50 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02513. Over 50% fine quartz gravel and very coarse sand.
    2BC2—102 to 132 centimeters (40.2 to 52.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very channery sandy clay loam; platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 70 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 50 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02514. Over 50% very coarse sand and fine quartz gravel.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1472530; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1472530
    2BC3—132 to 145 centimeters (52.0 to 57.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior very channery sandy loam; weak very coarse platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 50 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02515. Over 50% very coarse and fine quartz gravel.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1472529; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1472529
    2C1—145 to 173 centimeters (57.1 to 68.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very parachannery coarse sandy loam; weak very coarse platy, and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 80 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02516. Over 80% very coarse and fine gravels.