IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Edom
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1965PA055004
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA055004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 356
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA055004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44272
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 39.9094444
  • Std. Longitude: -77.9127778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: McGlaughin farm; 100 ft N of a culvert on E side of PA75, 0.75 mi SSW of Jct of US 30 & PA75, SSW Fort Lauden
  • 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-H8—McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, F. Loughry, R. Long
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Edom
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Edom
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.13 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/19/1965 ()
  • 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

    MESA

    Medicago sativa

    alfalfa

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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

    9

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    210

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    180

    1000

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    10.5

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films; 5 percent by volume limestone, argillaceous fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02777. patchy - phpvsfiid 533051; patchy - phpvsfiid 533051
    Bt—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay; strong fine and medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; 10 percent by volume limestone, argillaceous fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02778. "Patches of yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) ""C"" material."; continuous - phpvsfiid 533052; continuous - phpvsfiid 533052
    BC—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior very channery silty clay; moderate fine blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; 85 percent by volume limestone, argillaceous fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02779. patchy - phpvsfiid 533053; patchy - phpvsfiid 533053
    R—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) interior; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02780. Weathered limestone; clay deposited in voids and along bedding planes.