IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chenango
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 297
  • User Pedon ID: 1959PA037016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 297
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 59PA037016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44206
  • Print Date: 4/25/2024

    • 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: 41.0183333
  • Std. Longitude: -76.3966667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3 mi E of Bloomsburg, 300 ft N of Rt 11, 500 ft W of motel, 75 ft N of power pole 42618; photo AQR-32-116
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA037—Columbia
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41076-A4—Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Matelski, W. Steptus, P. Parrish, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chenango
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Conotton
  • Classificaton Date - 8/28/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 4 in/hr of percolation rate and 4 in/hr of percolation rate and 6 in/hr of percolation rate and 7 in/hr of percolation rate and 8 in/hr of percolation rate and 10.52 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/28/1959 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    DACA6

    DAGL

    PRPE3

    RUBUS

    Daucus carota

    Dactylis glomerata

    Prunus persica

    Rubus

    Queen Anne's lace

    orchardgrass

    peach

    blackberry

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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

    1

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    155

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    90

    1050

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    9.9

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.0 roots; 50 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02229. Limed
    Bw—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and platy structure; friable, slightly sticky; 5.0 roots; 70 percent clay films; 50 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02230. Limed.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532759; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532759
    BC—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, moderately sticky; 5.0 roots; 14 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 80 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02231
    C—53 to 122 centimeters (20.9 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior gravelly loam; loose; 90 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02232. pH (limed); few roots to 34 inches; coarse fragments; gravel and a few cobbles.