IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hazleton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957PA025021
  • User Pedon ID: S1957PA025021
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 156
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA025021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43500
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 40.8855556
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7219444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: On N boundary line of Jim Thorpe, 250' S of Rt 903 opposite NE end of guard rails.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA025—Carbon
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA025—Carbon County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-H6—Christmans, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, G. Fisher, C. Engle, E. Mason
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hazleton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/21/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/21/1957 ()
  • 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

    ACRU

    BELE

    GAPR2

    KALA

    PIRI

    POLYS

    QUAL

    QUIL

    QUPR2

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Betula lenta

    Gaultheria procumbens

    Kalmia latifolia

    Pinus rigida

    Polystichum

    Quercus alba

    Quercus ilicifolia

    Quercus prinus

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    sweet birch

    eastern teaberry

    mountain laurel

    pitch pine

    hollyfern

    white oak

    bear oak

    chestnut oak

    northern red oak

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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

    30

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    427

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    1200

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # PSU01133. Hardwood leaf litter.
    Oa—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior highly decomposed plant material; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01134. Black (10YR 2/1) fibrous leaf mold with abundant fungus mycelium.
    A—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior stony loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01135. "About 20% coarse fragments; thickness ranges from 3 to 5""."
    E—20 to 35 centimeters (7.9 to 13.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior stony loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01136. "About 20% coarse fragments; thickness ranges from 4 to 8""."
    BE—35 to 51 centimeters (13.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior stony loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01137. "About 20% coarse sandstone fragments; thickness ranges from 3 to 9""; thin clay films on stones."
    Bw—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior stony loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01138. "About 20% coarse fragments; partial clay coars and some clay bridging; thickness ranges from 6 to 11""; (fragments coarser than 3"" in diameter from PDH sample amount to 15% of total volume)."
    C1—74 to 107 centimeters (29.1 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior stony loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01139. "About 20% coarse fragments; thin clay films on stones; (fragments coarer than 3"" in diameter discardedfrom PDH sample amount to 15% of total volume)."
    C2—107 to 119 centimeters (42.1 to 46.9 inches); stony loam; nonsticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01140. Increasing amount of large sandstone fragments.