IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duffield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1965PA055012
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA055012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 364
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA055012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44281
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 39.8933333
  • Std. Longitude: -77.5688889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Gabler Farm, 1.2 mi NE of Duffield, 0.2 mi NW of junc. with PA 997 on Rt. PA T499 and 515 ft into field.
  • 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-H5—Scotland, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Noll, R. Long
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Duffield
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duffield
  • Classificaton Date - 3/23/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 14.75 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/23/1965 ()
  • 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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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

    5

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    248

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    180

    1000

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    10.4

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02819
    BA—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films; 10 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02820. patchy - phpvsfiid 533066; patchy - phpvsfiid 533066
    Bt1—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and brown (10YR 5/3) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains and 38 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films; 10 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02821. patchy - phpvsfiid 533067; patchy - phpvsfiid 533067
    Bt2—74 to 102 centimeters (29.1 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) exterior and brown (10YR 5/3) exterior gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains and 38 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) clay films; 20 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02822. continuous - phpvsfiid 533069; continuous - phpvsfiid 533069
    BC—102 to 142 centimeters (40.2 to 55.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and brown (10YR 5/3) interior and brown (10YR 5/3) exterior gravelly silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 38 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) clay films; 15 percent by volume shale, calcareous fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02823. continuous - phpvsfiid 533071; continuous - phpvsfiid 533071
    C—142 to 241 centimeters (55.9 to 94.9 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) interior and brown (10YR 5/3) interior gravelly silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3) clay films; 15 percent by volume shale, calcareous fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02824. Structure is inherited from bedding planes.; patchy - phpvsfiid 533072; patchy - phpvsfiid 533072