IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Solon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NY003022
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NY003022
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005NY003022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0434
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17452
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 42.4909821
  • Std. Longitude: -77.8716354
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Twp. of Grove. North of route 70. Bleier property. Described in logging trail cut.
  • 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-D7—Canaseraga, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DEAN A. SHIELDS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 22
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Solon
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/8/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and/or till
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: siltstone, unspecified at 127cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/8/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 16
  • 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 - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 13
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUNI

    QURU

    Quercus nigra

    Quercus rubra

    water oak

    northern red oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—5

    5—64

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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

    52

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    445.1

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    240

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) channery loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 20 percent by volume flat angular 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01687
    Bw1—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 38 percent by volume flat angular 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01688
    Bw2—18 to 64 centimeters (7.1 to 25.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 45 percent by volume flat angular 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01689
    CB—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) very channery silt loam; massive; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 45 percent by volume flat angular 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01690
    2Cr—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3); very firm; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 85 percent by volume flat subangular unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Pseudo structure of this horizon is fractured siltstone. Also observed silt coats on the rock fragments.
    2R—127 centimeters (50.0 inches); 70 percent very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) and 30 percent gray (2.5Y 5/1); massive; fragments. This horizon is dominated by fractured siltstone.