IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Manor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 482
  • User Pedon ID: 1978PA071029
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 482
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 78PA071029
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44412
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 39.7902778
  • Std. Longitude: -76.1833333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.5 mi N of Penn Hill on Hwy 272, 1200 W and 125 ft S, Renck Farm.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-G2—Wakefield, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Ciolkosz, I. Ratcliff, B. Custer, E. Merkle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, micaceous, mesic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 29
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Manor
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/20/2014
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Manor
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1978 ()
  • 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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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—25

    25—41

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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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    131

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    315

    1000

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    10.7

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 28 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; 5 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03738. Field texture was a silt loam.
    Bw—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) exterior silt loam; 28 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 16 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; yellowish red (5YR 5/6) coats on all faces of peds and clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03739. Field texture was a silt loam.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1162636; patchy - phpvsfiid 1162636
    BC—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) interior and light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior silt loam; 35 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 7 percent clay; structureless massive, and weak medium subangular blocky; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03740. Band of light reddish brown (5YR 6/4); Field texture was a silt loam.
    C1—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) interior and reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) interior and yellow (10YR 7/6) interior silt loam; 31 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03741. "Variegated with reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) and yellow (10YR 7/6); structure is bedrock controlled, horizontal."; Field texture was a silt loam.
    C2—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) interior and light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) interior and black (5YR 2/1) interior silt loam; 45 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03742. "Variegated with black (5YR 2/1); structure is bedrock controlled, horizontal."; Field texture was a silt loam.
    C3—97 to 137 centimeters (38.2 to 53.9 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior and pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) interior silt loam; 44 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03743. "Structure is bedrock controlled, 60 degrees from horizontal; also (7.5YR 7/6)."; Field texture was a silt loam.
    C4—137 to 178 centimeters (53.9 to 70.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior and pink (7.5YR 8/4) interior and black (5YR 2/1) interior fine sandy loam; 57 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 5 percent clay; moderate coarse platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03744. "Plates are 30 degrees from horizontal; variegated with (some color), thin bands of (5YR 2/1)."; Field texture was a silt loam.
    C5—178 to 239 centimeters (70.1 to 94.1 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior and white (7.5YR 8/1) interior silt loam; 47 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 3 percent clay; moderate coarse platy structure; firm; 0.5 roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03745. "Very firm centers in plates; variegated with (5YR 5/ ), (5YR 8/4), (7.5YR 3/0) and (5YR 2/1)."; Field texture was a silt loam.