IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Calvin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962PA057014
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA057014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 380
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA057014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44299
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 40.0866667
  • Std. Longitude: -78.0602778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Edwards farm on the top of hill SW of house 55 ft from S prop. line, 3.3 mi NW of Hustonville at T450 & PA76
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA057—Fulton
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA057—Fulton County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40078-A1—Hustontown, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, R. Matelski, F. Loughry, N. Churchill, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Calvin
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Calvin
  • Classificaton Date - 8/28/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.64 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.74 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.88 in/hr of percolation rate and 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.12 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/28/1962 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    2GP

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    Grass, perennial

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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

    8

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    349

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    0

    1000

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    —

    —

    —

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    9.9

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02856. 15% shale and siltstone to 1 inch.
    Bw—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 20 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02857. 20% shale and siltstone to 2 inches.
    BC1—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 60 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02858. 60% shale and siltstone to 3 inches.
    BC2—61 to 102 centimeters (24.0 to 40.2 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior loam; 90 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02859. 90% shale and siltstone to 5 inches.
    R—102 to 117 centimeters (40.2 to 46.1 inches); dusky red (10R 3/2) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU02860. Acid shale and siltstone.