IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Panorama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003PA017001
  • User Pedon ID: S2003PA017001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSl
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0250
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17414
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 40.3732778
  • Std. Longitude: -75.0084722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Bucks County, PA, Solebury Township, Honey Hollow Environmental Education Center (Bucks County Audubon Society), 850 feet Southeast of the junctions of Creamery Road and Route 263, 200 feet West northwest from Creamery Road and driveay entrance, in a mowed lawn.
  • Map Unit: LgB—Lansdale loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA017—Bucks
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA017—Bucks County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-C1—Buckingham, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MS, VMM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Panorama
  • PSC - 27 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/2014
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penn, deep
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 27 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • 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

  • Parent Material: colluvium over residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderate weathered shale, unspecified at 147cm
  • Geology: Stockton formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/14/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: MS, VMM
  • 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 - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 40
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    147 - 185

    - 38 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—27

    27—64

    147—185

    —27—

    —37—

    —38—
    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

    610

    229

    88.3

    —

    180

    1219

    —

    —

    10

    —

    —

    10.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap1—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, dry; silt loam; 25 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 15 percent clay; strong coarse granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low horizontal penetration resistance; moderately rapid permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium and coarse moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Ap2—11 to 27 centimeters (4.3 to 10.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, dry; silt loam; 25 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate horizontal penetration resistance; moderately rapid permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium and coarse moderate-continuity tubular pores; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt1—27 to 41 centimeters (10.6 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior, dry; silt loam; 15 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; high horizontal penetration resistance; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 medium moderate-continuity tubular and 1.0 coarse moderate-continuity tubular pores; 75 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 248501; continuous - phpvsfiid 248501
    Bt2—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, 70 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior and 30 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) interior, dry; loam; 13 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; high horizontal penetration resistance; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 coarse high-continuity tubular pores; 55 percent prominent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 248502; continuous - phpvsfiid 248502
    BC—64 to 98 centimeters (25.2 to 38.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior, dry; loam; 13 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 35 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; high horizontal penetration resistance; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 248503; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 248503
    C1—98 to 123 centimeters (38.6 to 48.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) interior, dry; loam; 60 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; high horizontal penetration resistance; moderately slow permeability; 8 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 55 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 248504; patchy - phpvsfiid 248504
    C2—123 to 147 centimeters (48.4 to 57.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, 50 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) interior and 50 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior, dry; loam; 60 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 25 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; high horizontal penetration resistance; moderately slow permeability; 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    R—147 to 185 centimeters (57.9 to 72.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face bedrock; shale, unspecified fragments.; moist when described; observed in trench. The R horizon has about 10-15 percent pararock material that is highly weatherable.