IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hazleton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA107047
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA107047
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 709
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA107047
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45214
  • 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: 40.7758333
  • Std. Longitude: -76.1102778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 6500 FEET SOUTH OF WALBOM SCHOOL, 3,450 FEET NORTH OF SILVER FIRE TOWER, 25 F EET NORTH OF THE DIRT ROAD. ASPECT EAST 109 DEGREES
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA107—Schuylkill
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA107—Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Anderson, J. Chibirka, T. Craul, M. Horkey, A. Wilkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 47
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hazleton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 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: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/12/1988 ()
  • 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

    QUAL

    QUPR2

    Quercus alba

    Quercus prinus

    white oak

    chestnut oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    7—12

    12—96

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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

    10

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    512

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    90

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior; 5.0 fine and medium roots top of horizon and 3.0 coarse roots top of horizon; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07399; moist when described;
    Oa—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); black (N 2/0) interior; 5.0 fine and medium roots top of horizon and 0.5 coarse roots top of horizon; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07400; moist when described;
    E—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior channery sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subangular ? to 265-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07401; moist when described;
    Bw1—15 to 35 centimeters (5.9 to 13.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery loam; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subangular ? to 265-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07402; moist when described;
    Bw2—35 to 50 centimeters (13.8 to 19.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery loam; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07403; moist when described;
    Bw3—50 to 71 centimeters (19.7 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior channery sandy loam; 19 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.1 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subangular ? to 265-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07404; moist when described;
    Bw4—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.1 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 10 percent by volume subangular ? to 265-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07405; moist when described;
    BC—99 to 135 centimeters (39.0 to 53.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 14 percent prominent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on surfaces along pores; 11 percent fine and medium prominent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4); 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 265-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07406; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 534758; patchy - phpvsfiid 534758
    R—135 to 145 centimeters (53.1 to 57.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07407