IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Highfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 4
  • User Pedon ID: 1961PA001011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 4
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 61PA001011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44320
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.9955556
  • Std. Longitude: -77.3113889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lott farm 0.3 mi N of T387, 0.4 mi NE of LR01010, 0.4 mi NE of Wenksville.
  • 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Highfield
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Highfield
  • Classificaton Date - 6/2/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/2/1961 ()
  • 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

    6

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    396

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    0

    1050

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    9.9

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume rhyolite fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00019
    BA—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 25 percent by volume rhyolite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00020
    Bt1—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 25 percent by volume rhyolite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00021
    Bt2—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 35 percent by volume rhyolite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00022
    BC—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 70 percent by volume rhyolite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00023. Structure modified by rock fragments.
    C—99 to 114 centimeters (39.0 to 44.9 inches); reddish gray (10R 6/1) interior silt loam; 95 percent by volume rhyolite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00024. Weathered metarhyolite up to 16x8x5 inches with magenta tones.