IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Norwich
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 740
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA113004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 740
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA113004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45249
  • 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: 41.3619444
  • Std. Longitude: -76.3652778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 150 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 Fragiaquepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Norwich
  • PSC - 0 to 27 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: frequent ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/17/1988 ()
  • 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

    2GA

    ACPE

    FAGR

    TSCA

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    Acer pensylvanicum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Tsuga canadensis

    Grass, annual

    striped maple

    American beech

    eastern hemlock

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    fragipan

    0—11

    11—27

    27—80

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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

    2

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    725

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    135

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    Oe—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (N 2/0) interior loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07481; wet when described;
    Ag—10 to 21 centimeters (3.9 to 8.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 60 percent medium distinct reddish brown (5YR 5/3); 5 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU07482; wet, satiated when described;
    Bwg—21 to 37 centimeters (8.3 to 14.6 inches); reddish gray (5YR 5/2) interior silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine and medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 60 percent fine and medium faint reddish brown (5YR 5/3) and 60 percent fine and medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 10 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07483; wet, satiated when described;
    Bx—37 to 60 centimeters (14.6 to 23.6 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) interior channery loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; slow permeability; 11 percent medium distinct pale red (2.5YR 6/2) and 11 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8); 15 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07484; wet, satiated when described;
    Bgx—60 to 90 centimeters (23.6 to 35.4 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior extremely channery loam; 16 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; slow permeability; 11 percent medium and coarse distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4); fine and medium irregular iron-manganese concretions; 80 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07485; wet, satiated when described;
    2C—90 to 175 centimeters (35.4 to 68.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior extremely channery loam; 16 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately slow permeability; 1 percent fine and medium distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) and 11 percent medium faint light reddish brown (5YR 6/3); fine and medium irregular iron-manganese concretions; 80 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07486; wet, satiated when described;
    2R—175 to 185 centimeters (68.9 to 72.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07487; wet, satiated when described;