IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arnot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 739
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA113003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 739
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA113003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45247
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 41.3658333
  • Std. Longitude: -76.3958333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 320 DEGREES
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA113—Sullivan
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. Ellenberger, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Lithic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arnot
  • PSC - 25 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with 45 to <100
  • 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

    ACRU

    FAGR

    Acer pensylvanicum

    Acer rubrum

    Fagus grandifolia

    striped maple

    red maple

    American beech

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—7

    7—38

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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

    6

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    698

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    315

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    Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior; 13 percent clay; weak fine and medium crumb structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.0 fine and medium high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 30 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07476; moist when described;
    AE—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) interior very channery loam; 15 percent clay; strong medium and coarse crumb structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.8 very fine and fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 40 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07477; moist when described;
    Bw1—12 to 18 centimeters (4.7 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior very channery loam; 16 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 roots throughout; 3.8 very fine and fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 50 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07478; moist when described;
    Bw2—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior extremely channery loam; 15 percent clay; strong medium and coarse crumb structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 roots throughout; 3.8 very fine and fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 60 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07479; moist when described;
    R—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07480