This is a full landscape panorama showing the Andover soil profile pit in its local context. The meadow-like setting and scattered clumps of early successional woody plants suggest that this area was once farmed and then abandoned several decades ago due to low productivity. coordinates: Latitude: 40.711898 ...
Andover soils are typically found along the lower slopes of the ridges that characterize the Ridge & Valley physiographic province of central Pennsylvania. USDA/NRCS's Official Soil Series Description: "Very deep, poorly drained soils formed in colluvium. They are on benches, toeslopes, footslopes, and swales alo...