IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glenelg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003PA071003
  • User Pedon ID: S2003PA071003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2003PA071003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0255
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17419
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 39.8691673
  • Std. Longitude: -76.3066635
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lancaster County, PA, Martic Tonwship, Cedar Meadow Farms; 1575 feet East northeast of Hilldale Road and about 700 feet South of Tucquan Glen Road near edge of woods, about 100 feet North of tomato greenhouses.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-G3—Holtwood, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Chibirka, CK, WRK
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • PSC - 34 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/7/2016
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 34 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/2003
  • Classifier - Soil Survey Staff
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: albite-chlorite residuum weathered from schist
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle 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: 9/25/2003 (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 - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 4
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACER

    BETUL

    CARYA

    FRAXI

    Acer

    Betula

    Carya

    Fraxinus

    maple

    birch

    hybrid hickory

    ash

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—34

    34—74

    —34—

    —40—
    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

    259

    152

    179.8

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    270

    1219

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    10

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    10.6

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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; loam; 30 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low toughness; low vertical penetration resistance; rapid permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 4 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01138; moist when described; observed in trench
    EB—9 to 24 centimeters (3.5 to 9.4 inches); 75 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; loam; 35 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 23 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low toughness; moderate horizontal penetration resistance; rapid permeability; 4.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 0.8 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 8 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01139; moist when described; observed in trench. 5 percent root channels filled with material from A horizon (10YR 3/2)
    BE—24 to 34 centimeters (9.4 to 13.4 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior, dry; clay loam; 30 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low toughness; moderate horizontal penetration resistance; moderately rapid permeability; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.5 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 6 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01140; moist when described; observed in trench. 3 percent root channels filled with material from A horizon (10YR 3/2)
    Bt—34 to 74 centimeters (13.4 to 29.1 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) interior, reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) interior, dry; clay loam; 30 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 31 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; low toughness; moderate horizontal penetration resistance; moderate permeability; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 20 percent faint red (2.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01141; moist when described; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 248487; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 248487
    C1—74 to 108 centimeters (29.1 to 42.5 inches); variegated 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and 35 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior and 15 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) interior, 50 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and 50 percent light red (2.5YR 6/6) interior, dry; parachannery sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; low toughness; moderate horizontal penetration resistance; very rapid permeability; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.3 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 16 percent by volume flat subangular weakly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01142; moist when described; observed in trench
    C2—108 to 128 centimeters (42.5 to 50.4 inches); variegated 60 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior and 30 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) interior and 20 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, 55 percent light red (2.5YR 6/6) interior and 35 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dry; parachannery sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low toughness; moderate horizontal penetration resistance; rapid permeability; 0.3 very fine roots throughout and 0.3 fine roots throughout; 26 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01143; moist when described; observed in trench
    C3—128 to 173 centimeters (50.4 to 68.1 inches); variegated 50 percent light red (2.5YR 6/6) interior and 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and 20 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) interior, 80 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) interior and 20 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, dry; very parachannery sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 8 percent clay; structureless massive; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; low toughness; high horizontal penetration resistance; rapid permeability; 0.3 fine roots throughout; 60 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 04N01144; moist when described; observed in trench. Horizon 7 & 8 are split for sampling purposes only. Present structure is lithologically controlled. Lowest depth of root is 160 cm.
    C4—173 to 205 centimeters (68.1 to 80.7 inches); variegated 50 percent light red (2.5YR 6/6) interior and 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and 20 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) interior very parachannery loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 5 percent clay; structureless massive; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; low toughness; high horizontal penetration resistance; rapid permeability; 0.3 fine roots throughout; 60 percent by volume flat subangular weakly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 04N01145; moist when described; observed in trench. Horizon 7 & 8 are split for sampling purposes only. Present structure is lithologically controlled.