IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hazleton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA107052
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA107052
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 714
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA107052
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45220
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 40.5275000
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2450000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: WAYNE TWP, SCHUYKILL CO, PA. 4850 FEET W. FROM JUNCTION OF APPALACHIAN TRAIL WITH FORT DEITRICH SNYDER MARKER, 1200 FEET N. OF TRAIL. NW 318 DEGREE ASPECT
  • 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: N. Churchill, S. Anderson, J. Chibirka, T. Craul, A. Wilkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 52
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hazleton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/19/1988 ()
  • 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

    CATO6

    PRSE2

    QUPR2

    Acer rubrum

    Carya tomentosa

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus prinus

    red maple

    mockernut hickory

    black cherry

    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

    4—18

    18—134

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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

    53

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    451

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    15

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    Oa—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5.0 medium and coarse moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07438
    E—4 to 18 centimeters (1.6 to 7.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior very stony loamy coarse sand; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 medium and coarse low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) oxide coats between sand grains; 15 percent by volume angular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume angular ? to 265-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume angular ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07439; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 534780; patchy - phpvsfiid 534780
    Bs—18 to 21 centimeters (7.1 to 8.3 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior very stony sandy loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 5.0 medium and coarse low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) oxide coats between sand grains; 15 percent by volume angular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume angular ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07440; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 534781; patchy - phpvsfiid 534781
    Bw1—21 to 53 centimeters (8.3 to 20.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior very stony sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 medium and coarse low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 15 percent by volume angular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume angular ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07441; moist when described;
    Bw2—53 to 80 centimeters (20.9 to 31.5 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior very stony sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 medium and coarse low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 70 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) skeletans throughout; 15 percent by volume angular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume angular ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07442; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534782; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534782
    Bw3—80 to 134 centimeters (31.5 to 52.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior very channery sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 coarse moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) skeletans throughout; 15 percent by volume angular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume angular ? to 265-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07443; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534783; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534783
    C—134 to 204 centimeters (52.8 to 80.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior extremely channery loamy coarse sand; 5 percent clay; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5.0 coarse high-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 10 percent by volume angular ? to 265-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # PSU07444; moist when described;