IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lackawanna
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 745
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA115002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 745
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA115002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45254
  • 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: 41.6647222
  • Std. Longitude: -75.9591667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: .75 mi W of the Palover farm 108 ft N of center line of road, 25 ft E of 36" soft maple 75' N of pole.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA115—Susquehanna
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41075-F8—Springville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, D. Pease, W. Steputis, R. Matelski, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lackawanna
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lackawanna
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/24/1958 ()
  • 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

    LOAR10

    LOUNU

    PHLEU

    TRPR2

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Lotus unifoliolatus var. unifoliolatus

    Phleum

    Trifolium pratense

    tall fescue

    American bird's-foot trefoil

    timothy

    red 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

    9

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    372

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    0

    950

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    8.6

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05615. Fine stone fragments less than 3 inches in diameter.
    E—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine platy, and weak fine granular structure; friable; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05616
    Bw—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint coats; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05617. continuous - phpvsfiid 534975; continuous - phpvsfiid 534975
    Bx1—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse platy structure; friable; brittle; faint coats; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05618. continuous - phpvsfiid 534976; continuous - phpvsfiid 534976
    Bx2—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; faint clay films; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05619. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534977; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534977
    Bx3—102 to 119 centimeters (40.2 to 46.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak coarse platy, and structureless massive; firm; brittle; faint clay films between sand grains; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05620. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534978; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534978