IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lindside
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013PA071002
  • User Pedon ID: S2013PA071002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 4/10/2026

    • 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: 40.0832889
  • Std. Longitude: -82.0697694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lancaster County, PA.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA071—Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Kraft
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/14/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Kraft, Joe
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    Ap1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2); 12 percent clay; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 40.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent fine distinct irregular dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—18 to 44 centimeters (7.1 to 17.3 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1); 12 percent clay; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 15.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine tubular and 1.0 coarse tubular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments observed by visual inspection method and 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary.
    Oeb—44 to 56 centimeters (17.3 to 22.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and black (7.5YR 2.5/1); 9 percent clay; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments observed by visual inspection method and 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary.
    2Cg—56 to 64 centimeters (22.0 to 25.2 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) and light grayish olive (10Y 6/2); 5 percent clay; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments observed by visual inspection method and 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary.
    2C—64 to 75 centimeters (25.2 to 29.5 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4); 2 percent clay; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries on surfaces along pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter quartz fragments observed by visual inspection method and 50 percent by volume nonflat rounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.6, pH indicator solutions.