IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Klinesville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957PA025006
  • User Pedon ID: 1957PA025006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 145
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA025006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43488
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 40.8547222
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5516667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 350' N from Pierce School 35' E of road, 1 mi S of Rt 209 from Towamenisng Twp., Elementary School.
  • 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. Loughry, G. Fisher, W. Steputis, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Klinesville
  • PSC - 25 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2014
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Klinesville
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/1957 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    AMAR2

    ASCLE

    DACA6

    ERIGE2

    PRUNU

    RUAC3

    VETH

    Ambrosia artemisiifolia

    Asclepias

    Daucus carota

    Erigeron

    Prunus

    Rumex acetosella

    Verbascum thapsus

    annual ragweed

    milkweed

    Queen Anne's lace

    fleabane

    plum

    common sheep sorrel

    common mullein

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—25

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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

    34

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    274

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    270

    1150

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    9.6

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 50 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01045. "About 50% coarse fragments; thickness ranges from 3 to 6""."
    BC—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior channery loam; friable; 70 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01046. "70% coarse fragments; thickness ranges from 3 to 11""."
    C1—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) interior loam; friable; 90 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU01047. "Loam amounting to only about 10% of mass dispersed among coarse fragments up to 12x6x2""; thickness ranges from 0 to 12""."
    C2—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior; 98 percent by volume shale, acid fragments. Lab sample # PSU01048. "Reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) shale, siltstone, and sandstone with less than 2% fine soil in cracks."