IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): HORNELLSVILLE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NY003019
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NY003019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0431
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17449
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 42.2755280
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7957764
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ALFRED STATE COLLEGE FARM;UP THE MAIN FARM LANE (NORTH) TO THE TOP OF THE HILL; AT "T" INTERSECTION GO RIGHT; 400 FEET NE OF "T" INTERSECTION AT EDGE OF FIELD/WOODS BOUDARY. SHOUDER OF SADDLE
  • Map Unit: 14C—Hornellsville silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New York
  • County: NY003—Allegany
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY003—Allegany County Area, New York
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42077-C7—Alfred, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MATTHEW W. HAVENS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, acid, frigid Aeric Endoaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 19
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - HORNELLSVILLE
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, illitic, acid, frigid Aeric Endoaquults
  • PSC - 25 to 97 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: GLACIAL silty and clayey till derived from sandstone and shale
  • Landform: SHOULDER saddle
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Bedrock: sandstone and shale at 97cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/27/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 67
  • 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 - sunny
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    indurated

    79 - 97

    97 -

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

    argillic horizon

    21—51

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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

    12

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    658.4

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01674; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg—21 to 51 centimeters (8.3 to 20.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/1) exterior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channery silty clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 35 percent faint light gray (2.5Y 7/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 35 percent faint light gray (2.5Y 7/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 30 percent fine faint gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 70 percent coarse prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 75-100-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-35-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01675; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—51 to 79 centimeters (20.1 to 31.1 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 5/3) exterior and 40 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) interior silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01676; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Cr—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, silt coats on rock fragments; 70 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-150-380 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2R—97 centimeters (38.2 inches); fragments. sandstone/siltstone bedrock