IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarksburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1961PA027002
  • User Pedon ID: 1961PA027002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 164
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 61PA027002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43509
  • 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: 40.7108333
  • Std. Longitude: -77.9463889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3 mi W of Pine Grove Mills, in alley at N corner of farm, weather sta. 40, adjacent to 1961 tomato plot 52.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA027—Centre County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-F8—Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. G. Loughry, L. Johnson, R. Zimmerman, R. H. Henry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarksburg
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bedford
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/1961 ()
  • 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

    LOAR10

    PHLEU

    TRIFO

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Phleum

    Trifolium

    tall fescue

    timothy

    clover

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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

    1

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    372

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    315

    1000

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    9.3

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular, and platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01162
    Bt1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; faint black (N 2/0) coats and faint clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01163. Few black concretions.; continuous - phpvsfiid 532054; continuous - phpvsfiid 532054
    Bt2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; faint clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01164. Few fine to medium black coatings and concretions; continuous - phpvsfiid 532055; continuous - phpvsfiid 532055
    BCg1—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films; 11 percent fine distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and 11 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01165. continuous - phpvsfiid 532056; continuous - phpvsfiid 532056
    BCg2—97 to 137 centimeters (38.2 to 53.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films; 60 percent medium distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01166. continuous - phpvsfiid 532057; continuous - phpvsfiid 532057