IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dunning
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1963PA027008
  • User Pedon ID: 1963PA027008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 170
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 63PA027008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43515
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 40.8150000
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6416667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Southwest side of Hwy 53, Bill Tucker farm; Potter Twp.
  • 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: F. G. Loughry, C. F. Engle and R. H. Henry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Fluventic Haplaquolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dunning
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dunning
  • Classificaton Date - 10/29/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/29/1963 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - wetlands
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • 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

    CAREX

    CRSC

    TYPHA

    Carex

    Crypsis schoenoides

    Typha

    sedge

    swamp pricklegrass

    cattail

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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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    347

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    90

    1000

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    9.4

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    A1—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (5YR 2/1) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01207
    A2—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) interior silty clay loam; weak fine blocky structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01208. Some humic coatings along roots
    BAg—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); gray (N 5/0) interior and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay loam; prismatic, and weak fine and medium blocky structure; slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 1 percent medium prominent olive (5Y 5/4); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01209. Partial coatings; prism coatings (5YR 4/6) yellowish red base (N 5/0) gray.
    Btg1—48 to 81 centimeters (18.9 to 31.9 inches); gray (N 6/0) interior silty clay loam; slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 60 percent coarse distinct olive (5Y 5/6) and 60 percent coarse distinct dark gray (N 4/0); fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01210. Base coatings N 6/0 gray; prisms present moderate medium fine blocky; common partial clay films localized in ridges.
    Btg2—81 to 112 centimeters (31.9 to 44.1 inches); dark gray (N 4/0) interior silty clay loam; slightly sticky, very plastic; 11 percent medium prominent olive (5Y 5/4); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01211. Polygons breaking to moderate medium blocky; clay films stand like ridges; some roots at 22 inches
    C1—112 to 145 centimeters (44.1 to 57.1 inches); dark bluish gray (5B 4/1) interior clay loam; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01212. 10-20% up to 0.25 inch coarse fragments; texture is gritty.
    2C2—145 to 183 centimeters (57.1 to 72.0 inches); dark bluish gray (5B 4/1) interior gravelly loam, gravelly sandy loam; structureless massive; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01213. Stratified gravel and gravelly loam