IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Watson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1957PA025013
  • User Pedon ID: 1957PA025013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA025013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43496
  • 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: 40.9836111
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7419444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In large field S of buildings, 50' N of Rt 13044 at point 450' W of right angle turn flanked by two trees.
  • 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-H6—Christmans, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, G. Fisher, C. Engle, E. Mason
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Watson
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Drums
  • Classificaton Date - 11/20/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately 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
    • 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

    3

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    373

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    315

    1200

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    9.2

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01097. "Few sandstone fragments up to 6"" in length; thickness ranges from 9 to 10""."
    BA—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01098. "Thickness ranges from 2 to 5""."
    Bt1—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior and reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak and moderate fine and medium blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01099. "Thickness ranges from 3 to 7""."
    Btg1—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak and moderate fine and medium blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent medium distinct weak red (2.5YR 5/2) and 1 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01100. "Thickness ranges from 3 to 7""."
    Btg2—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent medium faint pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) and 11 percent medium faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01101. "Thickness ranges from 4 to 8""."
    BC—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior gravelly silt loam; moderate medium blocky, and weak fine and medium platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent fine distinct pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) and 11 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01102. "6 to 8"" polygons; distinct gray silt and clay coatings particularly on polygon faces and some black coatings; thickness ranges from 4 to 8""."
    C1—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky, and moderate medium platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; black stains on all faces of peds and 14 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01103. Polygons disappear with depth in this horizon;
    C2—122 to 132 centimeters (48.0 to 52.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior silty clay loam; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01104. More platy structure than horizons above.