IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chenango
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 298
  • User Pedon ID: 1959PA037017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 298
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 59PA037017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44207
  • Print Date: 4/23/2024

    • 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: 41.0191667
  • Std. Longitude: -76.3152778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 110 ft W of Market St., opposite cemetary at point 100 ft S of cemetary gate; Mifflinville. Photo AQR-26-181.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA037—Columbia
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41076-A3—Mifflinville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, W.Steputis, P. Parrish, C. Engle, E. Mason
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 17
  • 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: 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.32 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.32 in/hr of percolation rate and 9 in/hr of percolation rate and 9.6 in/hr of percolation rate and 9.6 in/hr of percolation rate and 11 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

    2GA

    CAREX

    SOLID

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    Carex

    Solidago

    Grass, annual

    sedge

    goldenrod

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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

    —

    —

    168

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    45

    1050

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    —

    —

    —

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    9.8

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 15 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02233
    E—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 15 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02234
    BE—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 5.0 fine tubular pores; 14 percent clay films between sand grains; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02235
    Bw1—41 to 48 centimeters (16.1 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 5.0 fine tubular pores; 14 percent clay films between sand grains; 15 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02236
    Bw2—48 to 58 centimeters (18.9 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak coarse platy structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 14 percent clay films between sand grains; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02237. A few cobbles to 4 inches; a few ghosts of limestone gravel.
    BC—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior very gravelly sandy loam; weak coarse platy, and weak blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots; faint clay films on rock fragments and 14 percent clay films between sand grains; 60 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02238. Coarse fragments mostly less than 1 inch diameter.
    C1—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior extremely gravelly sand; loose; 90 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02239. Partial clay films on gravel; roots common to 34 inches; similar material but with decreasing amounts of clay coating continues to much greater depth.