IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Millheim
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1963PA027003
  • User Pedon ID: 1963PA027003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 165
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 63PA027003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43510
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.8669444
  • Std. Longitude: -77.5375000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2nd strip, 198' NE of wild black cherry tree on E side of T14043. 0.25 mi N of church at top of hill
  • 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-G5—Spring Mills, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Carey and B. Henry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Millheim
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Millheim
  • Classificaton Date - 8/20/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/1963 ()
  • 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

    2GA

    AVENA

    TRPR2

    TRRE3

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    Avena

    Trifolium pratense

    Trifolium repens

    Grass, annual

    oat

    red clover

    white 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

    5

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    384

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    0

    1000

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    9.2

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine platy, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01167
    Bt1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; faint clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01168. Is only 2-3 inches thick in places.
    Bt2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silty clay; strong medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels and prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01169. Dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) coatings and dark brown (10YR 3/3) spots.
    Bt3—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silty clay; moderate medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01170. Dark brown (10YR 3/3) coatings and splotches.; continuous - phpvsfiid 532061; continuous - phpvsfiid 532061
    BCt—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky, and platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 10 percent by volume shale, calcareous fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01171. Thick clay films on old root channels and worm holes; grayish brown (10YR 4/2) brown streaks on worm holes and root channels; dark brown (10YR 4/3) patches may be thick.
    R—107 to 140 centimeters (42.1 to 55.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU01172. Firm to hard shale. C horizon is discontinuous over relatively hard shale; bedrock effervesces; soil movement in vertical cracks; shale rests nearly horizontally; pit dug to 6 feet. Subdivision of B22 and B23 more or less arbitrary.