IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hazleton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962PA057016
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA057016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 382
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA057016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44301
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 40.0138889
  • Std. Longitude: -78.1869444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 95 ft W of Akersville Rd 1.3 mi S of US Rt 30, 2.4 mi NW of Akersville, Brush Creek Twp; State Forest Land.
  • 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, superactive Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hazleton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • Classificaton Date - 8/28/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.76 in/hr of percolation rate and 3 in/hr of percolation rate and 3 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.52 in/hr of percolation rate and 4 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

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

    ACRU

    GAYLU

    LIST2

    PRUNU

    QUERC

    SAAL5

    Acer rubrum

    Gaylussacia

    Liquidambar styraciflua

    Prunus

    Quercus

    Sassafras albidum

    red maple

    huckleberry

    sweetgum

    plum

    oak

    sassafras

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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

    7

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    500

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    135

    950

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    9.4

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    Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior highly decomposed plant material; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.7, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02864. Decomposed organic matter.
    E1—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior channery sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02865
    E2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channery sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02866
    BE—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channery sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02867
    Bw—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior channery sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films and clay films between sand grains; 25 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02868. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533112; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533112
    BC—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very stony sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films and clay films between sand grains; 40 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02869. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533114; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533114
    C—74 to 114 centimeters (29.1 to 44.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior very stony sandy loam; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 80 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02870
    R—114 to 125 centimeters (44.9 to 49.2 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2) interior bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # PSU02871