IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hazleton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969PA019007
  • User Pedon ID: 1969PA019007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 115
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69PA019007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43455
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 40.8072222
  • Std. Longitude: -79.9747222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4 mi S-SW of the center of Butler (city) 4 mi W of Connoquenessing Borough 2 mi W of Renfrew.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA019—Butler
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-G8—Butler, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. G. Grice and E. J. Ciolkosz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hazleton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hazleton
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.2 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.8 in/hr of percolation rate and 3 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.8 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/11/1969 ()
  • 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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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    104 - 165

    - 61 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—25

    25—84

    104—165

    —25—

    —59—

    —61—
    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

    9

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    —

    379

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    0

    1000

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    —

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    9.2

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); 50 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and 50 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior channery loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00854
    Bw1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent faint clay films between sand grains and 38 percent clay films between sand grains; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00855. patchy - phpvsfiid 1254892; patchy - phpvsfiid 1254892
    Bw2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior channery coarse sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 38 percent clay films between sand grains; 45 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00856
    Bw3—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 38 percent clay films between sand grains; 60 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00857
    C—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior very channery loamy sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; faint clay films on rock fragments; 80 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00858
    R—104 to 165 centimeters (40.9 to 65.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU00859. Thin bedded soft sandstone.