IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Penn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 861
  • User Pedon ID: 1957PA133001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 861
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA133001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45383
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 39.9783333
  • Std. Longitude: -76.8530556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 10 ft above the strip boundary at the N end of the farm. 0.75 mi E of Rt 6602, 1.25 mi SE of Dover on Rt 1999
  • Map Unit: PpB—Penn-Lansdale complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA133—York
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA133—York County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-H7—West York, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Pedersen, F. Loughry, R. Matelski, R. Smith, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Penn
  • PSC - 36 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/15/2017
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penn
  • Classificaton Date - 10/17/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: lowland, piedmont
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: shale, acid at 124cm
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/17/1957 ()
  • 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

    PHLEU

    TRPR2

    Phleum

    Trifolium pratense

    timothy

    red clover

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—36

    36—61

    —36—

    —25—
    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

    —

    —

    152

    —

    180

    1000

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    10.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06451. When dry the color is light reddish brown (5YR 6/3).
    BA—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06452. Showing some platiness near the top of the horzion. Some tongues of lighter colored more silty A2 horizon material. When dry the color is slightly lighter reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4).; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1312303; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1312303
    Bt1—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior channery silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06453. Many fragments of weathered siltstone.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1312306; continuous - phpvsfiid 1312306
    Bt2—53 to 61 centimeters (20.9 to 24.0 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine blocky, and weak medium platy structure; firm; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06454
    Ct1—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06455. Some platiness.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1312304; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1312304
    Ct2—76 to 124 centimeters (29.9 to 48.8 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior silt loam; weak fine blocky, and weak medium platy structure; firm; faint clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06456. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1312305; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1312305