IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brecknock
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 8
  • User Pedon ID: 1961PA001015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 8
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 61PA001015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45314
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.7336111
  • Std. Longitude: -77.2594444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Wainbright Farm, 0.5 mi W of Muddy Cr., 0.5 mi N of Maryland line on Rt. 01003.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA001—Adams
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39077-F3—Emmitsburg, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Speir, L. Dudeck, E. White
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brecknock
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brecknock
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: lowland
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/15/1961 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    MESA

    Medicago sativa

    alfalfa

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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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    134

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    315

    1050

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    10.7

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume hornfels fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00044
    Bt1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent faint clay films; 5 percent by volume hornfels fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00045
    Bt2—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 11 percent medium faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 11 percent medium faint gray (10YR 5/1); 5 percent by volume hornfels fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00046
    BC—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films; 11 percent medium faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 11 percent medium dark bluish gray (5B 4/1); 10 percent by volume hornfels fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00047
    C—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior loam; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent by volume hornfels fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00048. Weathered porcelainite; silty clay coatings and 30% very dark gray fragments.
    R—97 to 118 centimeters (38.2 to 46.5 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU00049