IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairplay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1965PA055002
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA055002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 354
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA055002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44270
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.7661111
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7341667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Strite farm, on the south bank of a stream; 150 ft SW of dam, 2 mi SW of Greencastle, Antrim Twp.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA055—Franklin
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA055—Franklin County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39077-G6—Greencastle, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, F. Loughry, R. Long
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, carbonatic, superactive Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairplay
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Warners
  • Classificaton Date - 3/18/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 3 in/hr of percolation rate and 3 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 5 in/hr of percolation rate and 5 in/hr of percolation rate and 5 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/18/1965 ()
  • 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

    2GP

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    Grass, perennial

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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

    —

    —

    174

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    0

    950

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    —

    —

    —

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    10.6

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    —

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02768. A few white specks.
    C1—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior; structureless massive, and weak fine granular; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02769. Patches of light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2).
    C2—58 to 97 centimeters (22.8 to 38.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior; structureless massive, and weak medium granular; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02770. Few streaks and patches of light browinish gray (10YR 6/2).
    C3—97 to 188 centimeters (38.2 to 74.0 inches); white (N 8/0) interior and light gray (10YR 7/1) interior and light gray (10YR 7/2) interior; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02771; wet, satiated when described;. Very porous.