IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gaila
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004PA029005
  • User Pedon ID: S2004PA029005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0250
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17429
  • 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: 39.8235016
  • Std. Longitude: -75.9508057
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Chester County, Pennsylvania; Lower Oxford Township, Richard Breckbill farm; 300 feet East of dairy barn in a pasture about half way up the field about 24 feet Northeast from fencerow.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA029—Chester
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39075-G8—Oxford, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: KK & CF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Inceptic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gaila
  • PSC - 22 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/10/2016
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenelg Pasture
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 22 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/18/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: peters creek residuum weathered from mica schist and/or residuum weathered from metaquartzite
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderate weathered schist, mica with 45 to <100
  • Geology: Peters Creek Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/18/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 14
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—22

    22—46

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    —24—
    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

    5

    —

    518.2

    174.3

    —

    180

    1219

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    —

    10

    —

    —

    11

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; 35 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate horizontal penetration resistance; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent by volume flat subrounded 2-?-150 millimeter schist, mica fragments and 1 percent by volume flat subrounded 2-?-150 millimeter quartz fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01454; moist when described; observed in trench
    Ap2—5 to 22 centimeters (2.0 to 8.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loam; 37 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate horizontal penetration resistance; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular and 0.2 coarse moderate-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent by volume flat subrounded 2-?-150 millimeter schist, mica fragments and 3 percent by volume flat subrounded 2-?-150 millimeter quartz fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01455; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt—22 to 46 centimeters (8.7 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior loam; 40 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate horizontal penetration resistance; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 0.3 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular and 0.1 coarse moderate-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent platy noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, mica flakes, unspecified with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 4 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter schist, mica fragments and 8 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter quartz fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01456; moist when described; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 269355; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 269355
    BCt—46 to 74 centimeters (18.1 to 29.1 inches); 65 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior channery loam; 50 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate horizontal penetration resistance; moderate permeability; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.3 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent platy noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, mica flakes, unspecified with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume flat subangular 150-?-380 millimeter quartz fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter schist, mica fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01457; moist when described; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 269356; patchy - phpvsfiid 269356
    C1—74 to 87 centimeters (29.1 to 34.3 inches); 60 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and 10 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior channery loam; 40 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak thick platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate horizontal penetration resistance; moderate permeability; 0.3 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 3 percent fine prominent platy noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, mica flakes, unspecified with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 150-?-380 millimeter quartz fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subangular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter schist, mica fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter schist, mica fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N01458; moist when described; observed in trench
    C2—87 to 106 centimeters (34.3 to 41.7 inches); variegated 65 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and 5 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior sandy loam; 59 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak thick platy parts to weak thin platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate horizontal penetration resistance; moderately rapid permeability; 0.3 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent fine prominent platy noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, mica flakes, unspecified with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume flat subangular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter schist, mica fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01459; moist when described; observed in trench
    C3—106 to 146 centimeters (41.7 to 57.5 inches); variegated 40 percent red (10R 4/6) interior and 30 percent weak red (10R 4/4) interior and 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior parachannery sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak thick platy parts to weak thin platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; high horizontal penetration resistance; moderately rapid permeability; 8 percent fine prominent platy noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, mica flakes, unspecified with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter schist, mica fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subangular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter schist, mica fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01460; moist when described; observed in trench
    C4—146 to 270 centimeters (57.5 to 106.3 inches); variegated 50 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior and 40 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior and 10 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior parachannery sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak thick platy parts to weak thin platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; high horizontal penetration resistance; moderately rapid permeability; 10 percent fine prominent platy noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, mica flakes, unspecified with clear boundaries around rock fragments and 5 percent medium prominent platy noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, mica flakes, unspecified with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 2-?-150 millimeter schist, mica fragments and 50 percent by volume flat subangular extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter schist, mica fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 05N01461; moist when described; observed in trench