IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leck Kill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1957PA025012
  • User Pedon ID: 1957PA025012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 151
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA025012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43495
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 40.9033333
  • Std. Longitude: -75.8158333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3/4 mi E of Hudsondale on Rt 193 in hay strip on N side of Rd, 140' N of farm field land and 58' E.
  • 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-H7—Weatherly, 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 #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leck Kill
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allenwood
  • Classificaton Date - 11/20/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/20/1957 ()
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2GA

    TRIFO

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    Trifolium

    Grass, annual

    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

    6

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    393

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    0

    1250

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    9.2

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01090. "About 15% coarse fragments; thickness ranges from 8 to 10""."
    BA—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct clay films; 15 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01091. "About 15% coarse fragments; thickness ranges from 2 to 5""."
    Bt1—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly loam; weak fine and medium angular blocky, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01092. "About 25% siltstone and fine sandstone fragments; thickness ranges from 3 to 7""."
    Bt2—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior gravelly loam; weak and moderate fine and medium blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01093. "About 25% coarse fragments of siltstone and fine sandstone; thickness ranges from 7 to 12""."
    BC—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior gravelly loam; weak medium blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01094. "About 25% coarse fragments; thickness ranges from 5 to 10""."
    C1—89 to 114 centimeters (35.0 to 44.9 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior gravelly loam; weak medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 35 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01095. "About 25% coarse fragments; some platiness with weak red and reddish gray (10R 5/2 and 5/1) clay coatings and some black coatings; thickness ranges from 6 to 14""."
    C2—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior loam; weak fine blocky, and weak fine platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent clay films; 35 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01096