IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arendtsville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1961PA001008
  • User Pedon ID: 1961PA001008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 61PA001008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43437
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.9338889
  • Std. Longitude: -77.2775000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Oyler Farm, 360 ft N of T369, 1.5 mi W of Biglerville
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA001—Adams
  • MLRA: 130A—Northern Blue Ridge
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39077-H3—Arendtsville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Noll, R. Speir
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arendtsville
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arendtsville
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 2.6 in/hr of percolation rate and 3 in/hr of percolation rate and 3 in/hr of percolation rate and 5 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1961 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - crop shrubs
  • 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

    MALUS

    Malus

    apple

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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

    7

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    244

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    180

    1050

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    10.4

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00001
    BA—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior gravelly loam; granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00002. Partial clay films around pebbles.
    Bt1—41 to 71 centimeters (16.1 to 28.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films and 14 percent coats; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00003. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531223; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531223
    Bt2—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films and 14 percent coats; 15 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00004. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531225; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531225
    BC—102 to 135 centimeters (40.2 to 53.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent clay films and 38 percent coats; 30 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU00005
    C—135 to 173 centimeters (53.1 to 68.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00006. Silty clay films on weathered fanglomerate.