IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leck Kill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 686
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA105011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 686
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA105011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44638
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 41.6608333
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7575000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: POTTER CO., PA, WATERSHED 2C029002, 9500 FEET SOUTH CORBEET MOUNT BROADHEAD IN UPPER DRY HOLLOW, 2900 FEET SOUTH OF START OF NOTCH TRAIL 9 ASPECT E 93 DEGREES
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA105—Potter
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. Churchill, S. Anderson, J. Chibirka, T. Craul, A. Wilkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, nonacid Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leck Kill
  • PSC - 22 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/21/1988 ()
  • 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

    ACRU

    FAGR

    PRSE2

    Acer rubrum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Prunus serotina

    red maple

    American beech

    black cherry

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—6

    22—64

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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

    57

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    680

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    90

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    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); black (5YR 2/1) interior; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 3.8 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 15 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07328; moist when described;
    A—2 to 8 centimeters (0.8 to 3.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior channery silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.8 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07329; moist when described;
    BA—8 to 24 centimeters (3.1 to 9.4 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.8 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07330; moist when described;
    Bt1—24 to 41 centimeters (9.4 to 16.1 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior very channery silt loam; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 3.8 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent faint weak red (2.5YR 4/2) clay films throughout; 35 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07331; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534653; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534653
    Bt2—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior very channery clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.8 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent distinct weak red (2.5YR 4/2) clay films throughout; 55 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07332; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534654; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534654
    C1—66 to 85 centimeters (26.0 to 33.5 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior extremely channery loam; 20 percent clay; structureless massive; loose, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.8 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent faint weak red (2.5YR 4/2) coats throughout; 80 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # PSU07333; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534655; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534655
    C2—85 to 124 centimeters (33.5 to 48.8 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior extremely channery loam; 20 percent clay; structureless massive; loose, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.8 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent distinct weak red (2.5YR 4/2) coats throughout; 80 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # PSU07334; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534656; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534656
    R—124 to 134 centimeters (48.8 to 52.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07335