IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leck Kill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1957PA025010
  • User Pedon ID: 1957PA025010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA025010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43492
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 40.8994444
  • Std. Longitude: -75.9177778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Near intersection of Rt 13025 and 13029, 90' W of 13029 and 75' N of powerline guy pole along Rt 13025.
  • 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-H8—Hazleton, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, G. Fisher, R. Matelski, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leck Kill
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allenwood
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/1957 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    4

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    393

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    180

    1200

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    9.2

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01074. "About 20% gravel; thickness ranges from 9 to 11""."
    BA—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01075. "About 20% gravel; thickness ranges from 3 to 7""."
    Bt1—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior gravelly loam; weak fine and medium blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01076. "About 25% gravel; thickness ranges from 5 to 9""."
    Bt2—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior gravelly loam; weak and moderate fine and medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01077. "About 25% coarse fragments; thickness ranges from 7 to 11""."
    BC—79 to 99 centimeters (31.1 to 39.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior gravelly loam; weak and moderate fine and medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01078. "About 30% siltstone fragments with a slightly redder hue than the horizon above; thickness ranges from 6 to 12""."
    C1—99 to 112 centimeters (39.0 to 44.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior extremely gravelly silt loam; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 85 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01079. "85% siltstone, shale and fine grained sandstone fragments."
    C2—112 to 137 centimeters (44.1 to 53.9 inches); extremely gravelly silt loam; 85 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01080. Increasing amount of partially shattered red siltstone.