IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mardin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 758
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA115015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 758
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA115015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45268
  • Print Date: 5/15/2024

    • 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: 41.9261111
  • Std. Longitude: -75.9961111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 93 fT w of the SE corner of woods 2000 ft along the first farm lane Wof the dirt road 1 mi N of St. Joseph.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA115—Susquehanna
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41075-H8—Laurel Lake, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, D. Pease, R. Matelski, W. Steputis, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mardin
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mardin
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/28/1958 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    ANOD

    CAREX

    PHLEU

    POTEN

    Anthoxanthum odoratum

    Carex

    Phleum

    Potentilla

    sweet vernalgrass

    sedge

    timothy

    cinquefoil

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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

    14

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    433

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    0

    950

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    8.4

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10 percent by volume unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05687
    BA—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; weak fine blocky, and weak fine platy structure; friable; 15 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05688
    E'—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior channery loam; weak medium platy, and weak fine blocky structure; friable; 11 percent medium faint gray (N 5/0) and 11 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); 20 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05689
    B'x1—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior channery silt loam; weak medium platy, and weak medium prismatic structure; very firm, slightly plastic; brittle; 11 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 11 percent medium prominent olive gray (5Y 5/2); 30 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05690. Some clay bridging and partial clay coatings.
    B'x2—76 to 94 centimeters (29.9 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine blocky, and weak medium platy, and weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm, slightly plastic; brittle; 1 percent fine and medium distinct gray (5Y 5/1) and 1 percent fine and medium distinct dark olive gray (5Y 3/2); 35 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05691. Clay bridging and few clay coatings.
    B'x3—94 to 107 centimeters (37.0 to 42.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and gray (N 6/0) broken face and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) channery loam; weak medium and coarse platy, and weak fine blocky structure; firm, nonplastic; brittle; 40 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05692. Gray (N 6/0) prism coats and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) streaks. Few clay coatings.