IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dekalb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 258
  • User Pedon ID: 88PA033041
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 258
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA033041
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44163
  • Print Date: 5/2/2024

    • 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: 41.0211111
  • Std. Longitude: -78.5661111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 310 DEGREES NW SAMPLE SITE LOCATED IN TRANSECT DIRECTION 5(SW) 150 METERS FROM STARTING POINT #3
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA033—Clearfield
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Chibirka, B. Custer, W. Farwell, M. Hogue
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, superactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 41
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • PSC - 25 to 95 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/5/2014
  • Classifier - Katey Yoast
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 32.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/15/1988 ()
  • 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

    PRSE2

    QUAL

    SAAL5

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus alba

    Sassafras albidum

    black cherry

    white oak

    sassafras

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    95 -

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

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    12—76

    95—105

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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

    43

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    563

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    315

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior; weak very fine and fine crumb structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, bromcresol green; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU07003; moist when described;
    E—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior very channery loamy sand; 8 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, bromcresol green; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU07004; moist when described;
    Bw1—12 to 34 centimeters (4.7 to 13.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 2.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 10 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07005; moist when described;
    Bw2—34 to 55 centimeters (13.4 to 21.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior very channery loam; 10 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 1.8 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 10 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07006; moist when described;
    Bw3—55 to 76 centimeters (21.7 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery loam; 8 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 10 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07007; moist when described;
    BC—76 to 95 centimeters (29.9 to 37.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior extremely channery sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.6 very fine and fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 30 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU07008; moist when described;
    R—95 to 105 centimeters (37.4 to 41.3 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07009