IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Murrill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004PA027007
  • User Pedon ID: 04PA027007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0809
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16727
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 40.7197227
  • Std. Longitude: -77.9330521
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Paul Salon Soil Quality study: Murrill, Rock Springs slope base
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA027—Centre County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.E., T.Craul, Y.P., M.McD., Jill
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Murrill
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/7/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from limestone, sandstone, and shale over residuum weathered from limestone and dolomite
  • Landscape: limestone and dolomite valley
  • Landform: baseslope low hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone)
  • Geology: Bellefonte Formation group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/7/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.8 fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N04555
    Bt1—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.8 fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04556
    Bt2—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent by volume flat 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04557
    Bt3—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face sandy clay loam; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) medium and coarse faint and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium and coarse faint mottles; weak thick platy structure; friable, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-20-75 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5. Lab sample # 04N04558