IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Atkins
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 415
  • User Pedon ID: 1959PA063004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 415
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 59PA063004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44338
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.7888889
  • Std. Longitude: -79.0558333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 10 ft from stream channel, 320 ft from W edge of field, 120 ft from farm bdry, 0.75 mi NW of Marion Ctr
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA063—Indiana
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-G1—Marion Center, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active Fluventic Endoaquepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Atkins
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Atkins
  • Classificaton Date - 5/29/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/29/1959 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - wetlands
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ALNUS

    CAREX

    IMNO

    POLYS

    SAMBU

    SYFO

    Alnus

    Carex

    Impatiens noli-tangere

    Polystichum

    Sambucus

    Symplocarpus foetidus

    alder

    sedge

    western touch-me-not

    hollyfern

    elderberry

    skunk cabbage

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    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    0

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    399

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    1150

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    9.3

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 roots; 11 percent fine and medium faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03156. Slightly platy structure near surface.
    Bw1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 11 percent fine and medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 11 percent fine and medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03157. This horizon contains some charcoal fragments near the bottom.
    2Bw2—41 to 55 centimeters (16.1 to 21.7 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) interior silt, fine sand; weak medium platy structure; loose, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent medium distinct gray (5Y 5/1) and 11 percent medium distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4); fragments. Lab sample # PSU03158