IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Palms
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 521
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA079002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 521
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA079002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44456
  • Print Date: 5/9/2024

    • 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: 41.3575000
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2436111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 45 DEGREES
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA079—Luzerne
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Knight, M. Cessna, N. Ellenberger, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, euic Terric Medisaprists
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Palms
  • PSC - 0 to 140 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: bog
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/8/1988 ()
  • 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

    ACRU

    CAST8

    TSCA

    Acer rubrum

    Carex stricta

    Tsuga canadensis

    red maple

    upright sedge

    eastern hemlock

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

    histic epipedon

    0—90

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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

    0

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    675

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    45

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    Oe—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) interior; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, bromcresol green; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07124; wet, satiated when described;
    Oa1—23 to 58 centimeters (9.1 to 22.8 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) interior; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, bromcresol green; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07125; wet, satiated when described;
    Oa2—58 to 90 centimeters (22.8 to 35.4 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) interior; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07126; wet, satiated when described;
    2C—90 to 140 centimeters (35.4 to 55.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) interior gravelly loamy sand; 6 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 11 percent medium distinct light gray (5Y 7/2) and 60 percent fine and medium faint olive gray (5Y 5/2); 15 percent by volume subrounded ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green. Lab sample # PSU07127; wet, satiated when described;