IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leck Kill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962PA057011
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA057011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 377
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA057011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44295
  • 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: 40.0797222
  • Std. Longitude: -78.1319444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 330 ft W of graveyard, 0.3 mi S of Rt 848, 2 mi W of Wells Tannery, Wells Twp; Edwards farm.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA057—Fulton
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA057—Fulton County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40078-A2—Wells Tannery, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, R. Matelski, F. Loughry, N. Churchill, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, subactive Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leck Kill
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Calvin
  • Classificaton Date - 8/28/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.76 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.88 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.24 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.28 in/hr of percolation rate and 6 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/28/1962 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    2GP

    DAGL

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    Dactylis glomerata

    Grass, perennial

    orchardgrass

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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

    4

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    335

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    90

    1000

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    —

    —

    —

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    10

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02836. 15% soft shale chips to 0.5 inches.
    Bw—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) interior clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02837. 25% soft shale chips and siltstone; 10-25% thin continuous clay films.
    BC—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films; 30 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02838. 30% soft shale chips and siltstone to 1 inch.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533103; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533103
    C1—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior clay loam; weak coarse platy structure; 90 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02839. 90% soft weathered shale and siltstone.
    C2—89 to 114 centimeters (35.0 to 44.9 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior silt loam; 95 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02840. 95% weathered shale and siltstone.
    R—114 to 130 centimeters (44.9 to 51.2 inches); dusky red (10R 3/3) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU02841