IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Penn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956PA029006
  • User Pedon ID: S1956PA029006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0364
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32892
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024
  • 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: 40.2066765
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6207352
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Chester County, Pennsylvania. Jonathan Thorne farm, East Coventry Twp., 110 feet southwest of Route 15125 opposite braced power and telephone pole west of farm buildings. Aerial photo AHK-44-56.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA029—Chester
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA029—Chester County, Pennsylvania
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M.W. Kunkle, E.J. Pedersen, F.G. Loughry, J.J. Noll, J.B. Carey and party.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Penn
  • PSC - 20 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/15/2017
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penn
  • PSC - 20 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/31/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/31/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AHK-44-56
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    69 - 94

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—58

    69—94

    —20—

    —38—

    —25—

    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

    10

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) gravelly loam; weak fine granular, and weak subangular blocky structure; friable, nonplastic; 22 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A02706
    Bt1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonplastic; clay films on faces of peds; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A02707. Contains about 30 percent sandstone fragments concentrated near the bottom of the horizon which appears to be the residue of a sandstone stratum.
    Bt2—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly plastic; distinct clay films on faces of peds; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A02708
    C—58 to 69 centimeters (22.8 to 27.2 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) and weak red (10R 4/4) gravelly loam; coarse platy, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, nonplastic; clay films on rock fragments and clay films on faces of peds; 75 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A02709
    R—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 40A02710. Not sampled; stratified sandstone, siltstone and shale. Alfalfa roots are abundant to 27 inches. There are numerous large earthworms.