IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dekalb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957PA025022
  • User Pedon ID: S1957PA025022
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 157
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA025022
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43501
  • 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: 40.9705556
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6775000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 180' E of Maury road, Rt 13042 opposite N end of guard fence at station 0/60.
  • 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 #: 22
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • 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: 1.00 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

    QUAL

    QUCO2

    QUPR2

    QURU

    SAAL5

    VACCI

    VITIS

    Quercus alba

    Quercus coccinea

    Quercus prinus

    Quercus rubra

    Sassafras albidum

    Vaccinium

    Vitis

    white oak

    scarlet oak

    chestnut oak

    northern red oak

    sassafras

    blueberry

    grape

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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

    38

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    421

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    180

    1250

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # PSU01141. Hardwood leaf litter.
    Oa—4 to 5 centimeters (1.6 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior highly decomposed plant material; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01142. Black (10YR 2/1) leaf mold and charcoal.
    A—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior very stony loam, channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 40 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01143. "About 40% coarse fragments; thickness ranges from 1 to 3""."
    E—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very stony loam, channery loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 40 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01144. "About 40% coarse snadstone fragments up to 1 1/2"" long and 1"" thick."
    BE—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very stony loam, channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 40 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01145. "About 40% coarse sandstone fragments; thickness ranges from 6 to 10""."
    Bw—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior very stony silt loam, channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01146. "About 40% coarse sandstone fragments; thickness ranges from 5 to 9""; some thin clay films on stones."
    C1—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior very stony silt loam, channery silt loam; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 40 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU01147. "Structure is determined by the arrangement of rock fragments; some thin clay coatings on rocks; thickness ranges from 0 to 9""."
    C2—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); very stony silt loam; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 80 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01148. Loose sandstone fragments with some silt and clay coatings.