IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Calvin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1964PA027021
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA027021
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 183
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA027021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43529
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 40.9308333
  • Std. Longitude: -77.8983333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Spotts farm, lane to S, through woods to opening into field WNW of Julian about 4 miles.
  • 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-H8—Bear Knob, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Carey and R. Henry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Calvin
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Calvin
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 7.5 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1964 ()
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MESA

    PHLEU

    PHLEU

    TRPR2

    Medicago sativa

    Phleum

    Phleum

    Trifolium pratense

    alfalfa

    timothy

    timothy

    red 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

    10

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    433

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    45

    1000

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior and dark reddish brown (2.5YR 2/4) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01305. 10% coarse fragments 0.25-3 inches; 5.1 colorimetric field.
    Bw1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.3 roots; 15 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01306. "15% 0.25-3 inch coarse fragments, many are soft; some movement of silt-no clay films; 5.2 colorimetric field."
    Bw2—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior silt loam; moderate fine blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.3 roots; 45 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01307. Tendency to be platy because of shale fragments; silt and clay coatings on pores and large surfaces; 5.2 colorimetric field.
    BC—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.3 roots; distinct manganese or iron-manganese stains; 55 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01308. Texture is gritty; structure modified by shale fragments; thick silt coatings; 5.0 colorimetric field.
    C1—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior loam; weak fine blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 75 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01309. Some of crushed shale 2.5YR 3/4 dark reddish brown; 5.0 colorimetric field; friable to firm removed; silt and clay coatings; structure modified by shale fragments;
    C2—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior loam; weak fine blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 80 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01310. 75-80% coarse fragments; structure modified by shale fragments; friable to firm out; 5.1 colorimetric field; silt and clay coatings.
    R—109 to 120 centimeters (42.9 to 47.2 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior; clay films on rock fragments; 90 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01311. 5.4 colorimetric field; fillings between shale fragments are silt loam and loam.