LOCATION KLINESVILLE PA+MD NJ VAEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
TYPICAL PEDON: Klinesville very channery silt loam, cultivated. (Colors are for moist soil.)
Ap--0 to 5 inches; dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) very channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common fine and medium roots throughout; few very fine and fine pores; very few skeletans on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent angular flagstones and 45 percent angular cobbles; moderately acid; abrupt smooth boundary.
Bw--5 to 15 inches; reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) very channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine and fine roots throughout; common coarse pores; 8 percent angular flagstones and 48 percent angular cobbles; moderately acid; clear smooth boundary.
R--15 inches; reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) fractured shale bedrock.
TYPE LOCATION: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; Upper Providence Township, 1.25 miles east of Royersford, 1,250 feet northwest on Mennonite Road from intersection with Fruit Farm Road, 75 feet on south side of road.; Phoenixville, Pennsylvania USGS 7.5 Minute Quadrangles, .lat. 40 degrees, 10 minutes, 49.00 seconds N. and long. 75 degrees, 30 minutes, 54.00 seconds W.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Solum thickness and depth to bedrock range from 10 to 20 inches. Rock fragments are dominantly red shale and range from 15 to 75 percent in the solum, and from 40 to 90 percent in the C horizon with an average of more than 50 percent in the textural control section. Where unlimed, soil reaction ranges from very strongly acid through moderately acid throughout. Illite and vermiculite are dominant clay minerals and the soil contains detectable amounts of chlorite, kaolinite and interstratified clay.
The A horizon has hue of 5YR through 10R, value of 2 through 4, and chroma of 2 through 4. Texture of the fine-earth fraction is silt loam or loam.
A thin grayish E horizon is in some pedons.
The B horizon has hue of 5YR through 10R, value of 3 through 5, and chroma of 3 through 6. Texture of the fine-earth fraction is silt loam or loam. Structure is weak or moderate fine or medium subangular blocky. Consistence ranges from friable to firm, from nonsticky to slightly sticky, and from nonplastic to slightly plastic.
The C horizon has hue of 5YR through 10R, value of 3 or 4, and chroma of 3 through 6. Texture of the fine-earth fraction is silt loam or loam.
COMPETING SERIES:
Arnot,
Nassau,
Sylvatus and
Weikert soils are in the same family. Arnot soils have 35 to 50 percent rock fragments, dominantly sandstone, in the textural control section. Nassau and Weikert soils have hue of 7.5YR or yellower throughout. Sylvatus soils formed in materials weathered primarily from metasediments of phyllite and slate with some shale, siltstone, and fine-grained sandstone.
The
Benson,
Bugley (T),
Calvin,
Catlett,
Colyer,
Dimal,
Holyoke,
Lehew,
Manteo,
Oquaga,
Rohan,
Unicoi and
Zango series are similar soils in other families. Benson soils have base saturation of more than 60 percent. Bugley soil have common to many mica flakes and fragments of schist. Calvin, Lehew, and Oquaga soils are deeper than 20 inches to bedrock. Catlett soils have chroma of 2 or less throughout. Colyer soils contain more than 35 percent clay. Dimal soils have rock fragments dominated by sandstones. Holyoke soils have less that 35 percent rock fragments. Rohan, Unicoi and Zango soils have hue of 7.5YR or yellower throughout. Manteo soils have soil temperatures of more than 59 degrees F.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Klinesville soils are gently sloping to very steep upland soils on convex positions. Slopes range from 3 to 80 percent. Klinesville soils formed in weathered reddish shale with some slate, siltstone or fine-grained sandstone. The climate is humid temperate. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 36 to 50 inches, mean annual temperature ranges from 47 to 59 degrees F, and the growing season ranges from 130 to 200 days.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: Abbottstown, Albrights, Allenwood, Bucks, Calvin, Croton, Edom, Lansdowne, Leck Kill, Lehew, Meckesville, Norton, Oquaga, Penn, Teas, Ungers, and Watson soils are on nearby landscapes. All of these soils are deeper than 20 inches to bedrock.
DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY: Somewhat excessively drained. Runoff is medium to very rapid. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is high.
USE AND VEGETATION: Mainly forest or pasture. Locally the less sloping areas are used for growing hay and tilled crops. Common trees are chestnut oak, black oak and Virginia pine.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Eastern and central Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia. The series is of large extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Morgantown, West Virginia
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Berks County (Sacony Kistler Project), Pennsylvania, 1940.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and other features recognized in this pedon are:
1. Ochric epipedon - the zone from the surface of the soil to a depth of 6 inches (Ap horizon).
2. Cambic horizon - the zone from 6 to 15 inches (Bw horizon).
Prior revision 6/2001 SCE-EAW . 2008: Pedon Description, type location updated, competing, and geographically associated soils.