IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gladstone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013PA029001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013PA029001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 39.8922306
  • Std. Longitude: -81.8139306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Chester County, PA
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA029—Chester
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA029—Chester County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chibirka, John
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum granitic gneiss
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/4/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: John Chibirka
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    33—132

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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

    2

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    270

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    Ap1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4); 10 percent sand; 75 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4); 10 percent sand; 72 percent silt; 18 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6); 15 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 23 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 12 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 55 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—69 to 132 centimeters (27.2 to 52.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6); 17 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 30 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C—132 to 160 centimeters (52.0 to 63.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6); 21 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak medium single grain parts to structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket