IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lickdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA025034
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA025034
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 161
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA025034
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43506
  • 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: 40.8950000
  • Std. Longitude: -75.8019444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: WEATHERLY, PA QUADRANGLE 16,300 FT S OF WEATHERLY TAWK 16,900 FT SE OF HUDSONDALE JUNCTION POEDON IS IN A SWAMP BY A CREEK ASPECT = 280 DEGREES W
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA025—Carbon
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA025—Carbon County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-H7—Weatherly, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Anderson, T. Craul, M. Horkey, A. Wilkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, active, acid, mesic Humic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 34
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lickdale
  • PSC - 1 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: swamp
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/10/1988 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - wetlands
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • 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

    BEAL2

    TSCA

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Tsuga canadensis

    yellow birch

    eastern hemlock

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

    histic epipedon

    0—58

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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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    474

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    270

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    Oi—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately smeary; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.8 fine and medium high-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06892; wet when described;
    Oe—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately smeary; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.8 fine and medium high-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06893; wet when described;
    Oa—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; smeary; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.8 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06894; wet when described;
    2Cg1—58 to 88 centimeters (22.8 to 34.6 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) interior and gray (N 5/0) interior and gray (2.5Y 6/1) interior clay loam; 32 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent faint gray (2.5Y 6/1) clay films throughout; 11 percent fine and medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1); 5 percent by volume rounded ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06895; wet when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532032; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532032
    2Cg2—88 to 122 centimeters (34.6 to 48.0 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior clay loam; 34 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent faint gray (2.5Y 6/1) clay films throughout; 11 percent fine and medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1); 5 percent by volume rounded ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU06896; wet when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 532033; patchy - phpvsfiid 532033
    2Cg3—122 to 139 centimeters (48.0 to 54.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior and gray (2.5Y 6/1) interior clay loam; 35 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 2.5 very fine and fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent faint gray (2.5Y 6/1) clay films throughout; 11 percent fine and medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1); 5 percent by volume rounded ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06897; wet when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532034; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532034
    2C—139 to 160 centimeters (54.7 to 63.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior loam; 25 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent faint brown (7.5YR 5/2) clay films throughout; 11 percent fine and medium prominent gray (10YR 5/1); 10 percent by volume rounded ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # PSU06898; wet when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532035; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532035