IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leck Kill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1966PA107004
  • User Pedon ID: 1966PA107004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 692
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 66PA107004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44645
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 40.8066667
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0241667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 8 mi S of Barnesville in Tuscarora State Park.
  • 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: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 4
  • 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 - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 4.4 in/hr of percolation rate and 31.3 in/hr of percolation rate and 60 in/hr of percolation rate and 720 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: 6/3/1966 ()
  • 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

    PIST

    QUERC

    Acer rubrum

    Pinus strobus

    Quercus

    red maple

    eastern white pine

    oak

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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

    16

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    329

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    180

    1200

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    9.5

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU05331
    Oa—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); black (5YR 2/1) interior; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU05332
    A—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) interior channery silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05333
    E—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05334
    BA—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on rock fragments; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05335
    Bt—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 70 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05336
    BC—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 60 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05337
    C1—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior very channery loam; structureless single grain; 80 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05338. Partial silt and clay films on fragments.
    C2—104 to 183 centimeters (40.9 to 72.0 inches); dusky red (10R 3/3) interior; 98 percent by volume shale, acid fragments. Lab sample # PSU05339. Shale and fine grained sandstone fragments; thin partial silt and clay films on fragments.