IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sewell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 246
  • User Pedon ID: 1973PA033024
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 246
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 73PA033024
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44150
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 41.1761111
  • Std. Longitude: -78.5594444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4 mi W of PA 153 on the Bark Camp Rd. 25 yds into the strip mine, 12 mi NW of Clearfield.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA033—Clearfield
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41078-B5—Penfield, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Ciolkosz, D. Grice, E. Jensen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, acid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 24
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sewell
  • Classificaton Date - 5/3/2023
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Minesoil
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/24/1973 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - culturally induced barren
  • 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

    LAKA2

    POTR5

    Larix kaempferi

    Populus tremuloides

    Japanese larch

    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

    3

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    549

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    180

    1050

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    8.5

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior extremely channery coarse sandy loam; 66 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 13 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01947
    C1—8 to 43 centimeters (3.1 to 16.9 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior extremely channery coarse sandy loam; 59 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 17 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01948. Common fine brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) variegations.
    C2—43 to 91 centimeters (16.9 to 35.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior extremely channery coarse sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 16 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01949. Many fine brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) variegations.
    C3—91 to 124 centimeters (35.8 to 48.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior extremely channery loam; 50 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 17 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 5 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01950. Many fine brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) variegations.
    C4—124 to 157 centimeters (48.8 to 61.8 inches); black (N 2/0) interior extremely channery coarse sandy loam; 71 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 12 percent clay; 10 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01951. "Shale fragments interiors, fragments coated with brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 6/4); disorientated shale and some sandstone rock fragments, no fine earth about 15% voids. pH of shale 3.8."
    C5—157 to 216 centimeters (61.8 to 85.0 inches); black (N 2/0) interior extremely channery coarse sandy loam; 66 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 10 percent clay; 10 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01952. "Shale fragments interiors, fragments coated with brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 6/4); disorientated shale and some sandstone rock fragments; no fine earth and about 15% voids; pH of shale 3.8."