IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hublersburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1964PA027012
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA027012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA027012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43519
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 40.8294444
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6675000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: PSU Ag. Farm, 6 ft N of bdry of Plot 50, 0.7 mi on Rt 53 S of Old Fort. 34 ft W of stake at lane corner.
  • 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 and R. H. Henry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, illitic, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hublersburg
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hublersburg
  • Classificaton Date - 3/18/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.44 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.31 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.57 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.44 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/18/1964 ()
  • 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
    • 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

    3

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    396

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    225

    1000

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    9.2

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.0 roots; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01239
    Bt1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01240. Thin partial clay film
    Bt2—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; distinct clay films and black (N 2/0) coats and 70 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01241
    Bt3—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; prominent clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01242
    BC1—94 to 117 centimeters (37.0 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01243. Clay film decreasing; some black coating.
    BC2—117 to 147 centimeters (46.1 to 57.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01244. Partial clay film some black coatings; 5Y 6/4 light yellowish brown weatherd chert.
    BC3—147 to 193 centimeters (57.9 to 76.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01245. 10YR 6/6 brownish yellow streaks; partial clay film few black coatings.
    BC4—193 to 231 centimeters (76.0 to 90.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; black (N 2/0) coats; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01246
    C—231 to 262 centimeters (90.9 to 103.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01247. Silt; weakly calcareous.