IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Linden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1958PA035001
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA035001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 259
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA035001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44164
  • Print Date: 5/17/2024

    • 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: 41.1544444
  • Std. Longitude: -77.3880556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: SE edge of airport 1 mi E of Lock Haven, Castanea Twp.; by the burrow pit.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA035—Clinton
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA035—Clinton County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41077-B4—Lock Haven, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Matelski, W. Steputis, C. Engle, E. Mason
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Linden
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashton
  • Classificaton Date - 4/21/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/21/1958 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    AGRE2

    DAGL

    PHLEU

    Agropyron repens

    Dactylis glomerata

    Phleum

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    orchardgrass

    timothy

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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

    1

    —

    —

    168

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    0

    1000

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    —

    —

    —

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    9.8

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    Ap—0 to 36 centimeters (0.0 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01960
    BA—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01961. Prismatic structure with an intermediate orientation.
    Bw1—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01962
    Bw2—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01963
    BC1—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01964
    BC2—122 to 137 centimeters (48.0 to 53.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01965. Few coarse faint faint grayh and strong brown mottles; partial clay films with some bridging.
    C1—137 to 165 centimeters (53.9 to 65.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01966. Some slight indication of layering.
    C2—165 to 183 centimeters (65.0 to 72.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01967. Some indication of layering.