IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954PA081001
  • User Pedon ID: S1954PA081001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1954PA081001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0382
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32910
  • Print Date: 4/27/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Near Hughesville.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA081—Lycoming
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA081—Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed
  • PSC - 25 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    COFL2

    QURU

    TSUGA

    Cornus florida

    Quercus rubra

    Tsuga

    flowering dogwood

    northern red oak

    hemlock

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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
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    O1—0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A02856. Surface litter of whole red oak, chestnut oak, black birch, and red maple leaves tied together weakly with fungal hyphae.
    O2—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A02857. Matted, partially decomposed leaves and needles firmly fastened to each other and to the A1 below by fungal hyphae; many animals including beetle larvae, ants, thrips, and millipedes.
    A1—1 to 2 centimeters (0.4 to 0.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A02858. Many rootlets; very high organic matter content; possibly should be considered an O2 rather than an A1 horizon.
    A2-B21—2 to 4 centimeters (0.8 to 1.6 inches); dark gray (5YR 4/1) very channery silt loam; 50 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A02859. A very thin bleicherde (albic), A2, underlain by a dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) orterde, B'21; fibrous, spongy, and tied together with fungal hyphae. In many places these horizons are absent and in their place is a very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very channery silt loam.
    B22—4 to 9 centimeters (1.6 to 3.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A02860
    A'2—9 to 31 centimeters (3.5 to 12.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02861. No visible ped faces; no clay skins; channers have silt caps and do not separate cleanly from surrounding material; this horizon is distinctly paler in color than the B21 horizon.
    B'1—31 to 62 centimeters (12.2 to 24.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 10YR (10YR/), very channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 fine pores; 60 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02862. 50-70 percent by volume fine and coarse channers with very fine sand packed around them.
    B'2—62 to 92 centimeters (24.4 to 36.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very channery loam; 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films; 55 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02863. Feels finer textured than B1 horizon; skins are shiny.
    B'x1—92 to 138 centimeters (36.2 to 54.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very channery loam; massive; very firm; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 90 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A02864. 90 percent coarse skeleton consists mostly of coarse channers, includes as much as 5 percent subrounded pebbles, the latter conspicuous because of their absence in horizons above; channers have silt caps, lie horizontal to the surface, and are firmly wedged one against another.
    B'x2—138 to 143 centimeters (54.3 to 56.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) channery silt loam; coarse distinct mottles; massive; very firm, nonsticky; 25 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A02865. This material caps the prism of the B24m horizon.
    B'x3—143 to 169 centimeters (56.3 to 66.5 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 1 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 8 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A02866. Prisms 4 to 6 inches across, bordered with 1/8 inch thick pale brown (10YR 6/3) very fine sand. No erratics on rounded pebbles observed.
    C—169 to 199 centimeters (66.5 to 78.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery loam; massive; clay films on rock fragments and silt coats on rock fragments; 90 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A02867. 90 percent coarse skeleton, consists of angular blocks of siltstone capped with fine material. These coarse fragments appear to be strongly weathered and lie on weakly weathered channers and flags that appear to be part of the underlying bedrock.