IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bowmansville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001PA091001
  • User Pedon ID: S2001PA091001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0546
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13265
  • 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: 40.2847214
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5294418
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Montgomery Co., Pa Upper Frederick Twp. 659 feet WNw of Jct. Keyser Rd. nad Neiffer Rd. 300 feet west(downstream) of where gas pipeline crosses creek 50 feet N. of creek in the floodplain of a BrA Bowmansville, local alluvium map unit.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA091—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA091—Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Chibirka, Vicki Wertz, Jake Eckenrode, Phil King.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Aeric Fluvaquents
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bowmansville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Aeric Fluvaquents
  • Classificaton Date - 2/12/2001
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: drainageway
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for very brief periods begining in nov
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 180
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/12/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 19
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - wetlands
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    agric horizon

    0—25

    71—0

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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

    3

    18

    15.2

    79

    10

    1168

    13.9

    14.4

    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior silt loam; strong fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 30.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.0 very fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N03112; moist when described;. Bt2 - 13" linear feature of rounded gravel (stoneline possible old surface) Free water - Entering through. In muskpat krotivina on E & W side of pit in Ap2 horizon Free water - entering pit face a 2 binches
    Ap2—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior silt loam; 8 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) distinct irregular mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 20.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 4.0 very fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N03113; moist when described;
    Bwg—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior and interior silty clay loam; 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium and coarse prominent irregular mottles; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.0 fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 3 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N03114; moist when described;
    Bw1—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) interior and interior silty clay loam; 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) coarse prominent irregular mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.0 fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 5 percent prominent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments; 7 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N03115; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 170566; patchy - phpvsfiid 170566
    Bw2—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) interior and interior gravelly clay loam; 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) coarse prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots between peds; 10.0 medium high-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 30 percent prominent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments; 1 percent medium spherical very strongly coherent cemented reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) iron-manganese concretions throughout; 9 percent by volume rounded 2-76-150 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments and 11 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 01N03116; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 170567; patchy - phpvsfiid 170567
    R—71 centimeters (28.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) interior and interior; moderate permeability; fragments.; moist when described;