IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tioga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 669
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA103008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 669
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA103008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44619
  • 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: 41.3380556
  • Std. Longitude: -74.7783333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sampled on the Santos Farm, 1730' SE of Rt. 209, Milford Twp.
  • 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 #: 8
  • 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: 37.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 40.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 42 in/hr of percolation rate and 45.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 37 in/hr of percolation rate and 37.25 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

    MESA

    POPR

    Medicago sativa

    Poa pratensis

    alfalfa

    Kentucky bluegrass

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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

    0

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    125

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    0

    1100

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    9.9

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    Ap1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05172
    Ap2—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05173
    C1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior loamy fine sand; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05174. Some tongues of Ap through this horzion.
    C2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior loamy fine sand; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05175
    C3—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior loamy fine sand; structureless single grain; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05176
    C4—76 to 122 centimeters (29.9 to 48.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior and brown (10YR 5/3) interior and reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior fine sandy loam; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05177. Splotches of brown (10YR 5/3) and streaks and thin irregular lenses of reddish brown (5YR 4/3).
    C5—122 to 145 centimeters (48.0 to 57.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior fine sandy loam; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05178
    C6—145 to 183 centimeters (57.1 to 72.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05179. Splotches of brown (10YR 5/3).
    C7—183 to 231 centimeters (72.0 to 90.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior very fine sandy loam; structureless single grain; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05180
    C8—231 to 272 centimeters (90.9 to 107.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior fine sandy loam; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05181
    C9—272 to 417 centimeters (107.1 to 164.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loamy fine sand; structureless single grain; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05182. Underlain by similar material.