IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chrome
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001PA029005
  • User Pedon ID: S2001PA029005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0863
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13405
  • 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: 39.7352791
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0302811
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Chester County, PA. West Nottingham Township, Nottingham County Park. 800 feet NE from Nottingham Drive, 1100 feet NE of Doe Trail in woods next to prior fire break road.
  • 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: John Chibirka, Dave Kingsbury, Diane Shields
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chrome
  • PSC - 13 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/30/2013
  • Classifier - A. Friend
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mollic Hapludalf
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxon above family
  • Classificaton Date - 5/10/2001
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Serpentine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent moderate weathered serpentinite with <10
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/10/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—20

    13—33

    41—

    61—

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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

    2

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    —

    133

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    0

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) crushed, 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0) crushed, dry; slightly decomposed plant material; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 80.0 fine roots top of horizon; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04636; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A1—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; silty clay; 5 percent sand; 50 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 15.0 medium roots throughout; 2 percent by volume flat subangular serpentinite fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04637; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 40 percent clay; strong fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 10.0 medium roots throughout; 10 percent faint black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent medium irregular indurated cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout; 2 percent by volume flat subangular serpentinite fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04638; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 205989; patchy - phpvsfiid 205989
    Bt—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); 55 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior and 45 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; clay; 8 percent sand; 60 percent clay; strong fine angular blocky, and moderate medium columnar structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 95 percent prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium irregular indurated cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular serpentinite fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04639; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 205990; continuous - phpvsfiid 205990
    BC—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, black (10YR 2/1) interior, dry; channery clay loam; 35 percent sand; 35 percent clay; 5 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) medium prominent irregular and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium prominent irregular and 30 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) medium distinct irregular mottles; strong coarse angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; 2.0 fine roots in cracks; 30 percent prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume flat subangular serpentinite fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04640; dry when described; observed in pit, small. Rock fragments are 50/50 channers and parachanners.; continuous - phpvsfiid 205991; continuous - phpvsfiid 205991
    Crt—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); 70 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and 20 percent light gray (5Y 7/2) interior and 10 percent black (2.5Y 2.5/1) exterior, 2.5Y 2/0 (2.5Y 2/0) interior and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and yellow (2.5Y 7/6) interior, dry; extremely channery coarse sandy loam; 90 percent sand; 8 percent clay; strong coarse platy structure; very firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; very slow permeability; 100 percent prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on tops of rock fragments; 95 percent by volume flat angular serpentinite fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 01N04641; dry when described; observed in pit, small. Structure is of the rock; continuous - phpvsfiid 205992; continuous - phpvsfiid 205992
    R—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches);, light gray (5Y 7/2) exterior, dry; very rigid, very rigid; fragments.; observed in pit, small