IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clymer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002PA065001
  • User Pedon ID: S2002PA065001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2002PA065001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0394
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18926
  • 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: 41.3254166
  • Std. Longitude: -79.0477219
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Clymer loam, 0 to 8 percent slopes, very stony, in Clear Creek State Forest in Heath Township, Jefferson County. Approximately .5 mile west of intersection of Little CLear Creek Road and ? road
  • Map Unit: HaB—Clymer loam, 5 to 12 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA065—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA065—Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41079-C1—Sigel, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alex W. Dado
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clymer
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, siliceous, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone
  • 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: moderate weathered sandstone, unspecified at 140cm
  • Geology: Pottsville Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 0.50 percent nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/16/2002 (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

    KALA

    NYSY

    PRSE2

    QUAL

    QUPR2

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Kalmia latifolia

    Nyssa sylvatica

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus alba

    Quercus prinus

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    mountain laurel

    blackgum

    black cherry

    white oak

    chestnut oak

    northern red oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    140 -

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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

    3

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    542.5

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    350

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loam; weak thick platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume flat subrounded ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench. Platy structure probably from compaction.
    E—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) loam; weak thick platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume flat subrounded ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench. Platy structure probably from compaction.
    Bt1—8 to 36 centimeters (3.1 to 14.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) channery loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 fine roots between peds; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat subangular ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N02030; moist when described; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 353641; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 353641
    Bt2—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume flat subangular ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 353642; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 353642
    Bt3—58 to 97 centimeters (22.8 to 38.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) very channery loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 fine roots between peds; 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 50 percent by volume flat subangular ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 353643; continuous - phpvsfiid 353643
    C—97 to 140 centimeters (38.2 to 55.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) extremely channery sandy loam; massive; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10 percent coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent coarse prominent light gray (10YR 7/2) iron depletions; 5 percent by volume flat angular ? to 250-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume flat angular ? to 75-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    R—140 centimeters (55.1 inches); cemented bedrock; fragments.; observed in trench