IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cedarcreek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 247
  • User Pedon ID: 1974PA033025
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 247
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 74PA033025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44151
  • 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: 41.2352778
  • Std. Longitude: -78.6241667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3/4 mi SW of PA 153 on Evans road, 3 mi NW of Penfield.
  • 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, R. Cunningham, G. Latshaw, I. Ratcliff, E. Jensen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, acid Typic Udorthents
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cedarcreek
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Minesoil
  • Classificaton Date - 8/20/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/1974 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    COVA2

    DAGL

    LOAR10

    LOUNU

    PHLEU

    Coronilla varia

    Dactylis glomerata

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Lotus unifoliolatus var. unifoliolatus

    Phleum

    crownvetch

    orchardgrass

    tall fescue

    American bird's-foot trefoil

    timothy

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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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    500

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    0

    1050

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    8.7

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior extremely channery loam; 28 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01953
    AC—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior extremely channery loam; 28 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01954. Many fine distinct variegations of yellowish brown (10YR 5/6).
    C1—23 to 58 centimeters (9.1 to 22.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior extremely channery loam; 34 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 23 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01955. Many fine distinct variegations of yellowish brown (10YR 5/6).
    C2—58 to 99 centimeters (22.8 to 39.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior extremely channery loam; 37 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 22 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01956. Common fine distinct variegations of yellowish brown (10YR 5/6).
    C3—99 to 175 centimeters (39.0 to 68.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior extremely channery loam; 33 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 23 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky; 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01957. Common fine distinct variegations of yellowish brown (10YR 5/6)
    C4—175 to 213 centimeters (68.9 to 83.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior extremely channery loam; 37 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 20 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01958. Common fine distinct variegations of yellowish brown (10YR 5/6).
    C5—213 to 264 centimeters (83.9 to 103.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior extremely channery loam; 42 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 18 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01959. Many fine distinct variegations of yellowish brown (10YR 5/6).