IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elioak
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003PA071001
  • User Pedon ID: S2003PA071001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0253
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17417
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 39.8672218
  • Std. Longitude: -76.3063889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lancaster County, PA, Martic Township; Cedar Meadow Farm, about 1665 feet East of Hilldale Road and about 1380 feet South of Tucquan Glen Road in crop field, about 400 feet from tomato greenhouses.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA071—Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-G3—Holtwood, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ed White, Rob Knight, Vicky Meyers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elioak
  • PSC - 27 to 77 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/21/2016
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elioak
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: albite-chlorite residuum weathered from schist
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderate weathered schist, unspecified with <10
  • Geology: Octoraro formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 101
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 6
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—27

    27—101

    —27—

    —74—
    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

    366

    91

    201.1

    —

    45

    1219

    —

    —

    10

    —

    —

    10.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; strong medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low toughness; rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01122; moist when described; observed in trench
    Ap2—10 to 27 centimeters (3.9 to 10.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low toughness; rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01123; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt1—27 to 45 centimeters (10.6 to 17.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior clay loam; 25 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; low toughness; moderate permeability; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine low-continuity vesicular and 1.0 coarse high-continuity tubular pores; 40 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine platy noncoherent cemented mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 248273; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 248273
    Bt2—45 to 75 centimeters (17.7 to 29.5 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 38 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low toughness; moderate permeability; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine low-continuity vesicular and 1.0 coarse high-continuity tubular pores; 70 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine platy noncoherent cemented mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 248274; continuous - phpvsfiid 248274
    Bt3—75 to 101 centimeters (29.5 to 39.8 inches); 60 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low toughness; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine low-continuity vesicular pores; 60 percent prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine platy noncoherent cemented mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01126; moist when described; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 248275; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 248275
    C1—101 to 145 centimeters (39.8 to 57.1 inches); variegated 50 percent reddish gray (5YR 5/2) interior and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and 20 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior channery fine sandy loam; weak thick platy, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; low toughness; rapid permeability; 80 percent fine platy noncoherent cemented mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 20 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter schist, mica fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01127; moist when described; observed in trench
    C2—145 to 200 centimeters (57.1 to 78.7 inches); 60 percent weak red (2.5YR 5/2) interior and 40 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior channery fine sandy loam; moderate very thick platy structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; low toughness; rapid permeability; 80 percent fine platy noncoherent cemented mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 55 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter schist, mica fragments. Lab sample # 04N01128; moist when described; observed in trench