IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clymer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 279
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA035021
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 279
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA035021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44186
  • Print Date: 5/2/2024

    • 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: 41.2219444
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7525000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 210 DEGREES SW STARTING POINT #5 WAS ACTUAL SAMPLE SITE
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA035—Clinton
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Chibirka, W. Farwell, M. Hogue
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clymer
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/21/2014
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/30/1988 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • 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

    ACPE

    FRAM2

    Acer pensylvanicum

    Fraxinus americana

    striped maple

    white ash

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

    albic horizon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—6

    6—64

    110—110

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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

    5

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    624

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    225

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    Oi—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior; weak fine crumb structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 fine to coarse roots top of horizon; 5.0 fine and medium high-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07010; moist when described;
    E—7 to 13 centimeters (2.8 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior channery loamy sand; 5 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 4.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.8 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07011; moist when described;
    Bw1—13 to 41 centimeters (5.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery loam; 10 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07012; moist when described;
    Bw2—41 to 71 centimeters (16.1 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior channery loam; 10 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 3.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07013; moist when described;
    BC—71 to 101 centimeters (28.0 to 39.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior extremely channery sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 2.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07014; moist when described;
    C—101 to 117 centimeters (39.8 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior extremely channery sandy loam; 6 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 2.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU07015; moist when described;
    R—117 to 127 centimeters (46.1 to 50.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07016