IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Holly
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 759
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA115016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 759
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA115016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45269
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 41.6630556
  • Std. Longitude: -75.9252778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 240 ft E of entrance road and 120 ft N of south boundary 2 mi E of Lynn.
  • 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, R. Matelski, W. Steputis, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, nonacid Haplaquepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Holly
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Holly
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/1958 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - wetlands
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • 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

    2MOSS

    ANOD

    POPR

    POTEN

    RANUN

    TRRE3

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    Anthoxanthum odoratum

    Poa pratensis

    Potentilla

    Ranunculus

    Trifolium repens

    Moss

    sweet vernalgrass

    Kentucky bluegrass

    cinquefoil

    buttercup

    white 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

    0

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    320

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    0

    950

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    8.8

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05693
    Eg—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak fine platy, and weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly plastic; 60 percent medium distinct gray (N 6/0); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05694
    BAg—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 11 percent medium distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 11 percent medium distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05695. "Some thin clay coatings, and some black and brown concretions."
    Bwg—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium blocky structure; friable, nonplastic; 11 percent medium distinct gray (N 6/0) and 11 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05696
    2BC—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loamy sand; structureless single grain; friable, nonplastic; 11 percent coarse prominent gray (N 6/0) and 11 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05697; wet, satiated when described;
    2C—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); bluish gray (10B 5/1) interior loamy sand; structureless single grain; friable, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05698; wet, satiated when described;