IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leck Kill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1966PA107003
  • User Pedon ID: 1966PA107003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 691
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 66PA107003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44644
  • 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: 40.8130556
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0055556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.4 mi NE of the entrance gate, 1.35 mi aliong 53097 from PA 54 in Barnsville.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA107—Schuylkill
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA107—Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-G1—Delano, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, L. Staley, D. Beltz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leck Kill
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Leck Kill
  • Classificaton Date - 6/3/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 36 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/3/1966 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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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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    366

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    45

    1200

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    9.4

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) interior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU05323
    BA—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, nonplastic; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05324
    Bt1—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; clay films; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05325
    Bt2—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films; 30 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05326. continuous - phpvsfiid 534675; continuous - phpvsfiid 534675
    BC—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds and faint clay films on rock fragments and 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 40 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05327
    C1—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) interior very channery silt loam; weak medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 70 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 60 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05328. Clay films on under side of coarse fragments.
    C2—122 to 157 centimeters (48.0 to 61.8 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) interior very channery loam; weak medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 70 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 85 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05329. Clay films on under side of coarse fragments.
    R—157 to 173 centimeters (61.8 to 68.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior and dark red (10R 3/6) interior; very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 98 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05330. Coatings and fillings of silt.