IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lackawanna
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 738
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA113002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 738
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA113002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45246
  • Print Date: 5/16/2024

    • 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: 41.3544444
  • Std. Longitude: -76.4102778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 35 DEGREES
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA113—Sullivan
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Knight, M. Cessna, N. Ellenberger, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lackawanna
  • PSC - 25 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/16/1988 ()
  • 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

    BELE

    PRSE2

    Acer pensylvanicum

    Betula lenta

    Prunus serotina

    striped maple

    sweet birch

    black cherry

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    oxic horizon

    0—17

    17—68

    68—68

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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

    7

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    739

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    45

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    A—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior channery silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine crumb structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU07470; moist when described;
    Bw1—17 to 41 centimeters (6.7 to 16.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 17 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07471; moist when described;
    Bw2—41 to 68 centimeters (16.1 to 26.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior channery loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.1 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07472; moist when described;
    Bx1—68 to 98 centimeters (26.8 to 38.6 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior channery silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.1 fine and medium roots between peds; 0.5 fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 14 percent prominent very dark gray (5YR 3/1) black stains on surfaces along pores; 1 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 11 percent medium distinct pinkish gray (5YR 6/2); fine irregular iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume subrounded ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07473; wet, satiated when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534970; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534970
    Bx2—98 to 146 centimeters (38.6 to 57.5 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior channery silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; slow permeability; 14 percent prominent very dark gray (5YR 3/1) black stains on surfaces along pores; 1 percent medium faint reddish gray (5YR 5/2) and 11 percent fine and medium faint reddish brown (5YR 4/3); 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume subrounded ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # PSU07474; wet, satiated when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534971; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534971
    Bx3—146 to 200 centimeters (57.5 to 78.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior channery silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; slow permeability; 14 percent prominent very dark gray (5YR 3/1) black stains on surfaces along pores; 1 percent medium faint reddish gray (5YR 5/2) and 11 percent fine and medium faint reddish brown (5YR 4/3); 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume subrounded ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # PSU07475; wet, satiated when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534972; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534972