IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Linden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1974PA081016
  • User Pedon ID: 1974PA081016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 529
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 74PA081016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44464
  • Print Date: 5/17/2024

    • 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: 41.1788889
  • Std. Longitude: -76.8325000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3 mi N of Montgomery on Rt. 405, 1 mi E on farm lane just S of Koppers Plant Office.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA081—Lycoming
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA081—Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41076-B7—Muncy, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: I. W. Ratcliff, P. H. Parrish, R. L. Cunningham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Fluventic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Linden
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Linden
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 1.86 in/hr of percolation rate and 7.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 14.64 in/hr of percolation rate and 33.78 in/hr of percolation rate and 40.74 in/hr of percolation rate and 90 in/hr of percolation rate and 90 in/hr of percolation rate and 97.5 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/1974 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous 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

    2FORB

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    Forb (herbaceous, not grass nor grasslike)

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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

    1

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    146

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    270

    1000

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    9.8

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04115
    Bw1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds and 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04116. patchy - phpvsfiid 533868; patchy - phpvsfiid 533868
    Bw2—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04117
    BC—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04118. patchy - phpvsfiid 533870; patchy - phpvsfiid 533870
    C1—89 to 114 centimeters (35.0 to 44.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loamy fine sand; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04119
    C2—114 to 160 centimeters (44.9 to 63.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loamy fine sand; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04120
    C3—160 to 203 centimeters (63.0 to 79.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loamy fine sand; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU04121