IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Williamson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 82
  • User Pedon ID: 1968PA015008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 82
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 68PA015008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45337
  • 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: 41.7602778
  • Std. Longitude: -76.3947222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.2 mi SW of Macedonia and .3 mi NW of the barn.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA015—Bradford
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41076-G4—Towanda, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. H. Sautter and R. L. Cunningham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Williamson
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Williamson
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.83 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.17 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/26/1968 ()
  • 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

    2GP

    PHAR3

    SOLAN

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    Phalaris arundinacea

    Solanum

    Grass, perennial

    reed canarygrass

    nightshade

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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

    6

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    244

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    112

    900

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    9.1

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00580
    E—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00581
    BA—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00582
    Bx1—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium and coarse blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 14 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00583. patchy - phpvsfiid 531611; patchy - phpvsfiid 531611
    Bx2—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silt loam; moderate coarse blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, moderately plastic; brittle; 14 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on surfaces along pores and 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 11 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4); 2 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00584. patchy - phpvsfiid 531612; patchy - phpvsfiid 531612
    Bx3—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate coarse blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 2 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels and 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; 60 percent medium and coarse prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 60 percent medium and coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 2 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00585. patchy - phpvsfiid 531614; patchy - phpvsfiid 531614
    2Bx4—99 to 127 centimeters (39.0 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very gravelly loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; brittle; distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels and 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00586. continuous - phpvsfiid 531616; continuous - phpvsfiid 531616
    2Bx5—127 to 142 centimeters (50.0 to 55.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very gravelly sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels and 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00587. continuous - phpvsfiid 531618; continuous - phpvsfiid 531618