IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chrome
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001PA029008
  • User Pedon ID: S2001PA029008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0865
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13407
  • 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: 39.7370834
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0327759
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Chester County, PA West Nottingham Township, Nottingham County Park, 1200 feet NE from Nottingham Drive, 800 feet N of Buck Trail.
  • 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: Phil King, John Hudak, Vicki Wertz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chrome
  • PSC - 24 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/30/2013
  • Classifier - A. Friend
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chrome
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • 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: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight 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 - grass/herbaceous 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    24—43

    58—

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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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    130

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 20.0 medium roots throughout; 8 percent by volume flat subangular serpentinite fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04652; observed in pit, small
    BE—13 to 24 centimeters (5.1 to 9.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; channery silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 medium roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat subangular serpentinite fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04653; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 206157; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 206157
    Bt—24 to 43 centimeters (9.4 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, dry; channery silty clay loam; strong medium angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 18 percent by volume flat subangular serpentinite fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 01N04654; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 206158; continuous - phpvsfiid 206158
    Ct—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior, olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) interior, dry; very channery loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots in cracks; 5 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 60 percent by volume flat subangular serpentinite fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 01N04655; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 206159; continuous - phpvsfiid 206159
    R—58 to 83 centimeters (22.8 to 32.7 inches);, pale olive (5Y 6/4) interior, dry; 3 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on rock fragments; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 206160; continuous - phpvsfiid 206160