IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tioga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 668
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA103007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 668
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA103007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44618
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 41.2627778
  • Std. Longitude: -74.8505556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sampled on the Zimmerman Farm, E of Rt. 209 about 5 mi S of Milford.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA103—Pike
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41074-C7—Milford, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Carey, E. Sautter, R. Matelski, R. Cunningham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Dystric Eutrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tioga
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Barbour
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 29.05 in/hr of percolation rate and 33.4 in/hr of percolation rate and 34.45 in/hr of percolation rate and 36.85 in/hr of percolation rate and 37.15 in/hr of percolation rate and 41.05 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/1964 ()
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGRE2

    MESA

    POPR

    Agropyron repens

    Medicago sativa

    Poa pratensis

    —

    alfalfa

    Kentucky bluegrass

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    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

    0

    —

    —

    119

    —

    0

    1100

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    9.9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05159. Containing spots and streaks of darker colors.
    C1—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior fine sandy loam; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05160
    C2—41 to 46 centimeters (16.1 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior fine sandy loam; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05161. Few darker and lighter splotches.
    C3—46 to 53 centimeters (18.1 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loamy very fine sand; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05162
    C4—53 to 61 centimeters (20.9 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior loamy fine sand; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05163
    C5—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior very fine sandy loam; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05164
    C6—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior very fine sandy loam; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05165
    C7—89 to 119 centimeters (35.0 to 46.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior very fine sandy loam; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05166
    C8—119 to 170 centimeters (46.9 to 66.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior very fine sandy loam; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05167. Darker than above and redder than dark brown.
    C9—170 to 213 centimeters (66.9 to 83.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and brown (10YR 5/3) interior and pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior very fine sandy loam; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; faint clay films between sand grains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05168
    C1—213 to 239 centimeters (83.9 to 94.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loamy sand; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05169. Redder than dark brown.
    C1—239 to 264 centimeters (94.1 to 103.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior sand; structureless single grain; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU05170
    C1—264 to 391 centimeters (103.9 to 153.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior fine sandy loam; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05171. Underlain soil material.