IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lackawanna
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 762
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA115019
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 762
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA115019
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45273
  • Print Date: 5/16/2024

    • 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: 41.6666667
  • Std. Longitude: -76.1019444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 75 ft S of field entrance W of farmstead, 1.5 mi W of South Auburn.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA115—Susquehanna
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41076-F1—Auburn Center, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, D. Pease, R. Matelski, W. Steputis, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 19
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lackawanna
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cattaraugus
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/1958
  • 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: 6/27/1958 ()
  • 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

    CIAR4

    PHLEU

    POPR

    RANUN

    TRIFO

    Cirsium arvense

    Phleum

    Poa pratensis

    Ranunculus

    Trifolium

    Canada thistle

    timothy

    Kentucky bluegrass

    buttercup

    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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    366

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    135

    900

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    8.7

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior channery silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky; 18 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05711
    E—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior channery silt loam; weak fine platy, and weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky; 18 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU05712
    Bw—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior channery silt loam; weak medium platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; faint coats; 18 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05713
    E'—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior channery silt loam; weak medium platy, and weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; faint clay films; 22 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05714. continuous - phpvsfiid 535001; continuous - phpvsfiid 535001
    B'x1—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak medium platy, and weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; brittle; faint coats on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05715. continuous - phpvsfiid 535002; continuous - phpvsfiid 535002
    B'x2—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic, and massive; firm; brittle; 25 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05716
    B'x3—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; brittle; faint pale red (2.5YR 6/2) coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 1 percent fine distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6); 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05717. continuous - phpvsfiid 535003; continuous - phpvsfiid 535003