IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Manor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 493
  • User Pedon ID: 1990PA071049
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 493
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 90PA071049
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44424
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 39.9133333
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2911111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From Pequa, east on 324 to RR tunnel. Straight onto unnamed road (do not turn left at stop sign). From stop sign, follow alongside RR tracks for 1780 meters, then go due south for 280 meters
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-H3—Conestoga, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JONATHAN POLLACK AND ROBERT DOBOS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, micaceous, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 49
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Manor
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/20/2014
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Manor
  • Classificaton Date - 11/13/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/13/1990 ()
  • 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

    KALA

    QUPR2

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Kalmia latifolia

    Quercus prinus

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    mountain laurel

    chestnut oak

    northern red oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    168 - 386

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

    0—36

    36—84

    168—386

    168—386

    —36—

    —48—

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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

    16

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    165

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    0

    1080

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    9.3

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    10.5

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior loam; 41 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03835. "although an O horizon was present, it was not described"; Field texture was a silt loam.
    E—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior loam; 39 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03836. Field texture was a silt loam.
    BE—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior loam; 40 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03837. Field texture was a silt loam.
    Bw1—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior loam; 47 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03838. Field texture was a silt loam.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162637; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162637
    2Bw2—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior fine sandy loam; 64 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03839. Field texture was a sandy loam.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162638; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1162638
    3BC—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine sandy loam; 66 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03840. Field texture was a sandy loam.
    3C1—107 to 135 centimeters (42.1 to 53.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) very fine sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03841. Field texture was a sandy loam.
    3C2—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loamy sand; 79 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 2 percent clay; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03842. rock controlled; Field texture was a very gravelly sandy loam.
    3C3—152 to 168 centimeters (59.8 to 66.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and pink (7.5YR 8/4) very fine sandy loam; 58 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03843. extremely abrupt boundary; Field texture was a sandy loam.
    4Cr1—168 to 193 centimeters (66.1 to 76.0 inches); white (N 8/0) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 4 percent clay; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03844. "rock controlled structure, structured saprolite"; Field texture was a sandy loam.
    4Cr2—193 to 244 centimeters (76.0 to 96.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and white (N 8/0) very fine sandy loam; 62 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 5 percent clay; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03845. "rock controlled structure, structured saprolite"; Field texture was a gravelly sandy loam.
    4Cr3—244 to 386 centimeters (96.1 to 152.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and white (N 8/0) loamy sand; 75 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 2 percent clay; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # PSU03846. "rock controlled structure, structured saprolite"; Field texture was a gravelly sandy loam.