IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leck Kill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1959PA037013
  • User Pedon ID: 1959PA037013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 294
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 59PA037013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44203
  • 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: 40.9277778
  • Std. Longitude: -76.4775000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1st macadam Rd W on Rt 42 S of Catawissa, 3 mi SW, 90 ft W of PPL pole 43 and 1/90, 50 ft N into crop field.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA037—Columbia
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA037—Columbia County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-H4—Catawissa, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P.Parrish, F.Loughry, R.Matelski, W.Steputis, C.Engle, E. Mason
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leck Kill
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Leck Kill
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/1959 ()
  • 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

    TRAE

    Triticum aestivum

    common wheat

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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

    3

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    271

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    180

    1100

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    9.5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.0 roots; 15 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02212
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior channery silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02213. Texture is gritty.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532748; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532748
    Bt2—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior channery silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; clay films; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02214. Texture is gritty.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532749; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532749
    BC—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior channery silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 35 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02215. Texture is gritty; partial clay films and common black coatings on the peds.
    C—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior very channery silty clay loam; blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; clay films and 38 percent black (N 2/0) coats on all faces of peds; 75 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02216. Structure modified by coarse fragments.
    2Cr—94 to 104 centimeters (37.0 to 40.9 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior very channery silt loam; 85 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02217. Rock material of fine grained sandstone and some shale. Similar to C horizon but contains less fine material.