LOCATION GLENEYRE PAEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Typic Fluvaquents
TYPICAL PEDON: Gleneyre silt loam, on 0 to 1 percent slopes. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise specified)
Oa-- 0 to 2 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) muck; massive; friable, non sticky, non plastic, weakly smeary; many fine and medium roots throughout; very strongly acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (1 to 4 inches thick.)
A-- 2 to 5 inches; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) mucky silt; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many fine and medium roots throughout; many coarse prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), and common fine and medium reddish gray (5YR 5/2) areas of iron depletion and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) masses of iron accumulation; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary. (3 to 12 inches thick.)
Cg1-- 5 to 10 inches; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many fine and medium roots throughout; many fine and medium prominent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) masses of iron accumulation; moderately acid; clear smooth boundary.
Cg2-- 10 to 14 inches; 50 percent weak red (2.5YR 5/2) and 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) stratified bands of silt; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine and fine roots throughout; many fine and medium prominent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) masses of iron accumulation; strongly acid; clear smooth boundary.
Cg3-- 14 to 34 inches; gray (5Y 5/1) silt; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine and fine roots throughout; moderately acid; abrupt smooth boundary.
2Cg4-- 34 to 72 inches; greenish gray (5GY 5/1) very gravelly loamy sand; single grain; very friable, non sticky, non plastic; neutral; 45 percent well rounded sandstone gravels.
TYPE LOCATION: Pike County, Pennsylvania; Lackawanna Township in State Gameland #183; West on US Rt. 6 from Lake Wallenpaupack to township Rd. #367. North on township Rt. #367 for 1700 meters to powerline. South of road 50 meters into swamp; Howley, PA USGS topographic quadrangle; Latitude 41 degrees, 26 minutes, 31 seconds N. and Longitude 75 degrees, 8 minutes, 16 seconds W. NAD 1927.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: The thickness of the solum ranges from 3 to 12 inches. Depth to bedrock is greater than 70 inches, and depth to contrasting material is 20 to 34 inches. Rock fragments are absent in the solum, but range from 0 to 60 percent in the lower substratum. The rock fragments consist of well rounded and subrounded sandstone gravels and cobbles. Gravels make-up around 65 percent of the total rock fragment fraction. Reaction ranges from strongly acid to neutral in the solum and from strongly acid to neutral in the substratum.
The A horizon has hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 4 to 7, chroma of 0 to 4. It is silt loam, or silt.
The C horizon has hue of 10YR to 5Y or 5GY, value of 4 or 6, chroma of 1 or 2. It is mostly silt, but can be commonly stratified or varved with varying textures and colors. Discontinuous 1 or 2 inch buried organic layers between 26 to 42 inches are common and thought to be of the Pleistocene age. The organic matter can color the surrounding strata with hues as red as 2.5YR.
The 2C horizon has hue of 2.5Y to 5GY, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 0 to 2. It is loamy sand or sand and commonly stratified with different sized gravel and cobble layers.
COMPETING SERIES: There are no soils within the same family.
The Holly, Sunny, and Wyalusing soils are in related families. Holly soils are in the fine-loamy family. Sunny and Wyalusing soils are in the coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy skeletal family.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Nearly level fluvial-lacustrine deposits on lakebeds. Slope ranges from 0 to 1 percent. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 35 to 50 inches and is evenly distributed throughout the year. Mean annual temperature ranges from 40 to 52 degrees F., and the growing season ranges from 110 to 200 days.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: They are the Chenango, Edgemere, Freetown, Kimbles, Morris, Paupack, and Shohola soils. The Edgemere, Morris, and Shohola soils have fragipans. The Kimbles soils have better development. The Chenango soils are well drained. The Freetown and Paupack soils are organic.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Gleneyre soils are very poorly drained. The potential for surface runoff is negligible to very high. Permeability is moderate to moderately slow in the solum, and moderately rapid to rapid in the substratum.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are covered with hummocks of sedges and reeds.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Southern New York, Northeastern and eastern Pennsylvania. The Series is of minor extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Amherst, Massachusetts
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Pike County, Pennsylvania, 1995.
REMARKS: The buried organic layers are so irregular and not thick enough to be Thapto-Histic.
Diagnosic Horizons:
Ochric: From the surface to a depth of 3 inches
CEC activity class is estimated from data on similar parent materials.