IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Barbour
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 751
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA115008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 751
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA115008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45261
  • 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: 41.7950000
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0166667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Elmer Sever Farm on boundary between Rush and Jessup Townships.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA115—Susquehanna
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41076-G1—Lawton, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, D. Pease, R. Matelski, W. Steputis, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed Fluventic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Barbour
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Barbour
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/1958 ()
  • 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

    BROMU

    MESA

    PHLEU

    Bromus

    Medicago sativa

    Phleum

    brome

    alfalfa

    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

    0

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    312

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    0

    950

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    8.9

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior very fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU05650
    BA—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05651
    Bw1—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05652
    Bw2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint coats; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05653. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534986; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534986
    BC—76 to 86 centimeters (29.9 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; faint coats; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05654. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534987; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534987
    C—86 to 97 centimeters (33.9 to 38.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior gravelly coarse sand; 95 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05655. Very thin clay or silt coatings on gravel and sand.