IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lackawanna
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 765
  • User Pedon ID: 1985PA115031
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 765
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 85PA115031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45276
  • Print Date: 5/16/2024

    • 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: 41.8727778
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6311111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1B3-012-2-I33-226 SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY JACKSON TWP HARFORD QUADRANGLE AT COORDINATES LISTED ABOVE SITE NUMBER ONE SATISFACTORY. FIVE RANDOM NUMBERS CHOSEN. SITE TWO SATISFACTORY BUT MOVED 150 FT SOUTH TO EDGE OF HAYFIELD BY LANDOWNERS REQUEST.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA115—Susquehanna
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41075-G6—Harford, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. Churchill, J. Hallowich, J. Hudak, C. Kohler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 31
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lackawanna
  • PSC - 25 to 57 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/1985 ()
  • 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

    PHPR3

    SOLID

    Phleum pratense

    Solidago

    timothy

    goldenrod

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    fragipan

    0—25

    20—57

    57—156

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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

    4

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    558

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    315

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed channery silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07504; moist when described;
    Bw1—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) crushed channery silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07505; moist when described;
    Bw2—40 to 57 centimeters (15.7 to 22.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) crushed very channery silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07506; moist when described;
    Bx1—57 to 77 centimeters (22.4 to 30.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) crushed channery loam; weak coarse platy, and weak coarse prismatic structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 0.5 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 11 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 11 percent medium pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2); 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07507; moist when described;
    Bx2—77 to 156 centimeters (30.3 to 61.4 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) crushed channery loam; moderate very coarse prismatic, and moderate very coarse platy structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 11 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 11 percent medium pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2) and 11 percent medium pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2); 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # PSU07508; moist when described;