IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hartleton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1957PA025001
  • User Pedon ID: 1957PA025001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 140
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA025001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43483
  • Print Date: 5/21/2024

    • 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: 40.8608333
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5944444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Along blacktop Rd joining Rt 206 at Smith Fruit farm, 350 ft N of intersection 50 ft N of blacktop PhotoAQT-1
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA025—Carbon
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA025—Carbon County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-G5—Palmerton, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F.G.Loughry,W.J.Steputis,G.V.Fisher,R.P.Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hartleton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hartleton
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/1957 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PHLEU

    TRPR2

    Phleum

    Trifolium pratense

    timothy

    red clover

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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

    10

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    302

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    270

    1150

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    9.5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 20 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01019
    BA—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; faint clay films on rock fragments; 25 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01020. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531952; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531952
    Bt1—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior channery loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; faint clay films on rock fragments; 30 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01021. Contains few lenses of fine and medium gravel; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531953; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531953
    Bt2—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior channery loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; faint clay films on rock fragments; 30 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01022. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531954; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531954
    BC—71 to 81 centimeters (28.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior very channery loam; weak coarse platy structure; friable; faint clay films on rock fragments; 50 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01023. Coatings are on shale fragments.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531955; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531955
    C1—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior extremely channery loam; weak very coarse platy structure; friable; 60 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01024
    C2—102 to 150 centimeters (40.2 to 59.1 inches); channery loam; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01025. Not sampled.