IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chenango
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 579
  • User Pedon ID: 1963PA085001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 579
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 63PA085001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44519
  • 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: 41.1986111
  • Std. Longitude: -80.2552778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Shaffer farm 680 ft N of Rt. 43011, 0.2 mi from Rd. 158, 2 mi W of Mercer, E Lackawannock Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA085—Mercer
  • MLRA: 139—Lake Erie Glaciated Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41080-B3—Greenfield, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Carey, D. Grice, R. Grubb, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chenango
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Conotton
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/1963 ()
  • 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

    ACER

    CRATA

    POTR5

    Acer

    Crataegus

    Populus tremuloides

    maple

    hawthorn

    quaking aspen

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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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    396

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    225

    1000

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    8.9

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior gravelly loam; weak medium platy, and weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04496. 20% gravel.
    E—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 25 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04497. 25% Gravel.
    Bw—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior gravelly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films; 30 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04498. 30% gravel.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534216; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534216
    BC—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and brown (10YR 5/3) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 35 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04499. 35% gravel. Brown (10YR 5/3) patches.; patchy - phpvsfiid 534217; patchy - phpvsfiid 534217
    C—74 to 135 centimeters (29.1 to 53.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior very gravelly sandy loam; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 30 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU04500. "Silt and clay films accumulations of gravel tops; 60% gravel, granite, gneiss, weathered ghosts of limestone and calcareous shale to 6 inches in diameter."