IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Linden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1974PA097007
  • User Pedon ID: 1974PA097007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 633
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 74PA097007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44580
  • 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: 41.0988889
  • Std. Longitude: -76.8777778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Approx. 1 mi S and 1 mi W at Dewitt, 2nd level above the river, 100 yds E of road.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA097—Northumberland
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA097—Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41076-A8—Allenwood, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: I. W. Ratcliff, C. D. Kohler, G. D. Yoder
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Fluventic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Linden
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Linden
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 67.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 80 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 39 in/hr of percolation rate and 40.5 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: 6/19/1974 ()
  • 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

    MESA

    Medicago sativa

    alfalfa

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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

    0

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    140

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    1000

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    10

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    Ap1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04877
    Ap2—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04878
    BA—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04879. patchy - phpvsfiid 534425; patchy - phpvsfiid 534425
    Bw1—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04880
    Bw2—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04881
    Bw3—91 to 130 centimeters (35.8 to 51.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04882
    2Bw4—130 to 142 centimeters (51.2 to 55.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior loamy sand; structureless single grain; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04883
    2Bw5—142 to 196 centimeters (55.9 to 77.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04884. "Reddish brown (5YR 5/5) sandier bands. 3-5 inch stratified bands of dominantly 2 colors, some thinner pockets."
    2C1—196 to 241 centimeters (77.2 to 94.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loamy fine sand, very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04885. Banded alternately. Sandier bands with brown (7.5YR 5/4) very fine sandy loam.
    2C2—241 to 287 centimeters (94.9 to 113.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior very fine sandy loam, loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04886. Thinner bands (1/2 to 2 inches thick).
    2C3—287 to 305 centimeters (113.0 to 120.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loamy fine sand, fine sandy loam; structureless single grain, and weak subangular blocky; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU04887. Mostly loamy fine sand with a few reddish brown (5YR 3/4) bands.