IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clymer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001PA031060
  • User Pedon ID: S01PA031060
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001PA031060
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0242
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14473
  • 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: 41.3058891
  • Std. Longitude: -79.5940857
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Clymer channery loam, 0 to 8 percent slopes, very stony, on State Game Lands 45 in Ashland Township, Clarion County. Approximately .75 mile northwest of Kline near an abandoned gas well. Kossuth, PA topographic quadrangle. elevation 1455 feet.
  • Map Unit: CnB—Clymer loam, 0 to 8 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA031—Clarion
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA031—Clarion County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alex Dado
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Hapludults
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 53
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clymer
  • Taxonomic Class - Hapludults
  • Classificaton Date - 7/20/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: at 139cm
  • Geology: Pottsville Fm. formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/20/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - 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

    ACRU

    PRSE2

    QUAL

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus alba

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    black cherry

    white oak

    northern red oak

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

    argillic horizon

    17—83

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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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    443.5

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    195

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); loose; 10.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    A—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume flat subangular ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N01080; moist when described; observed in trench
    E—6 to 18 centimeters (2.4 to 7.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) channery sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume flat subangular ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N01081; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt1—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 fine roots between peds; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat subangular ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N01082; moist when described; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 203921; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 203921
    Bt2—43 to 84 centimeters (16.9 to 33.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) channery sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 20 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume flat subangular ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N01083; moist when described; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 203922; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 203922
    BC—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 50 percent by volume flat angular ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N01084; moist when described; observed in trench
    C—104 to 140 centimeters (40.9 to 55.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely channery loamy sand; massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume flat angular ? to 250-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume flat angular ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N01085; moist when described; observed in trench
    R—140 centimeters (55.1 inches); cemented bedrock; fragments.; observed in trench