IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buchanan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 576
  • User Pedon ID: 1979PA083010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 576
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 79PA083010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44516
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 41.6430556
  • Std. Longitude: -78.9466667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA083—McKean
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41078-F8—Ludlow, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard Aguilar
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Buchanan
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ernest
  • Classificaton Date - 8/15/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/15/1979 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    FAGUS

    TSCA

    Fagus

    Tsuga canadensis

    beech

    eastern hemlock

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    11—45

    45—130

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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

    7

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    533

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    170

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU04468. beech foliage and hemlock litter
    Oe—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04469. decomposed leaves
    Oa—5 to 7 centimeters (2.0 to 2.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 medium and coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04470. 74% organic matter
    E—7 to 13 centimeters (2.8 to 5.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 medium and coarse roots; 5 percent by volume unspecified fragments; ultra acid, pH 3.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04471
    Bhs—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium and coarse roots; 8 percent by volume unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04472
    Bt1—18 to 29 centimeters (7.1 to 11.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds and faint clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04473
    Bt2—29 to 52 centimeters (11.4 to 20.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 38 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 11 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); 10 percent by volume unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04474. continuous - phpvsfiid 534203; continuous - phpvsfiid 534203
    Bx1—52 to 102 centimeters (20.5 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior channery loam; moderate very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 38 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 38 percent clay films on rock fragments; 60 percent medium and coarse prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 60 percent medium and coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); 20 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04475. very fine roots only in the upper 10 cm
    Bx2—102 to 137 centimeters (40.2 to 53.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 1 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 11 percent fine and medium faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2); 10 percent by volume shale-siltstone fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU04476