IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Millheim
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1963PA027004
  • User Pedon ID: 1963PA027004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 166
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 63PA027004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43511
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 40.8280556
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6266667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Field W of Sprucetown church, 200 ft from corner of cemetary at church, on T14030, in line w/ spruce tree.
  • 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-G6—Centre Hall, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. B. Carey and B. Henry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 4
  • 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
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.19 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.7 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.81 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.57 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.62 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 7.19 in/hr of percolation rate


    • 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

    AMAR2

    ASCLE

    PHLEU

    Ambrosia artemisiifolia

    Asclepias

    Phleum

    annual ragweed

    milkweed

    timothy

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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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    369

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    0

    1000

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    9.3

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 roots; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01173
    BA—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak medium platy, and very fine blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01174
    Bt1—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01175. "10% soft fragments, 10% hard fragments; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) soft shale."; patchy - phpvsfiid 532063; patchy - phpvsfiid 532063
    Bt2—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01176. "10% soft fragments, 20% firm; dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) soft shale."
    BC—79 to 94 centimeters (31.1 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silty clay loam; weak very fine blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; prominent clay films; 60 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01177. "Very dark gray (10YR 3/2) soft shale; 20% soft fragments, 40% hard; structure modified with coarse fragments."
    C—94 to 104 centimeters (37.0 to 40.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior clay loam; weak fine blocky structure; firm, very sticky, slightly plastic; prominent clay films; 75 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01178. "75% firm and hard seams and pockets of fine material; dark brown (10YR 4/3) base, dark brown (7.5YR 4/4) flown in intersices. Structure modified with shale fragments."
    R—104 to 142 centimeters (40.9 to 55.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 99 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # PSU01179. Dark brown (7.5YR 4/4) flow; silty clay loam between fragments in R; pH of coatings is 6.8; 99% firm and hard fragments increasing hardness with depth.