IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mardin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956PA049002
  • User Pedon ID: 56PA049002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956PA049002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0375
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32903
  • Print Date: 5/14/2024

    • 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: 42.0077820
  • Std. Longitude: -79.9378128
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Greene Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania on S. S. Firewich farm 1/2 mile southeast of West Greene School in woods 40 feet south of line fence at point 120 feet east of southeast corner of cleared field on neighboring farm, opposite three beech trees, largest with initials I.J.T., location shown on aerial photo APD-42-53.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA049—Erie
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA049—Erie County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E.J. Pedersen, F.G. Loughry, L.T. Kardos, D.C. Taylor and party.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Fragiudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mardin
  • PSC - 25 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/20/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Langford
  • Classificaton Date - 9/11/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent 3.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/11/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: APD-42-53
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    ACER

    BETUL

    FAGUS

    FRAXI

    MIRE

    TRILL

    Acer

    Betula

    Fagus

    Fraxinus

    Mitchella repens

    Trillium

    maple

    birch

    beech

    ash

    partridgeberry

    trillium

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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

    4

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    451

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    270

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    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02798. Partly rotted hardwood leaves.
    Oa—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02799. Dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) leaf mold with fungus mycelium and fine tree roots.
    A—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); black (5YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02800
    BA—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine platy, and weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02801
    Bw1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02802
    Bw2—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; 1 percent fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02803
    Bx—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; 21 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct and 21 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse platy structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; clay films on faces of peds and clay films on rock fragments; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02804
    BC1—76 to 96 centimeters (29.9 to 37.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly clay loam; 1 percent gray (5YR 5/1) fine faint mottles; firm, moderately sticky; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02805. Structure determined by shape of space between gravels which makes up about 50 percent of soil volume.
    BC2—96 to 127 centimeters (37.8 to 50.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly clay loam; 1 percent gray (5YR 5/1) fine faint mottles; moderate medium platy, and subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly plastic; clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02806
    C1—127 to 157 centimeters (50.0 to 61.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly silt loam; 1 percent gray (5YR 5/1) and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) mottles; moderate medium platy structure; firm, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02807
    C2—157 to 188 centimeters (61.8 to 74.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly loam; weak medium platy structure; firm, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A02808