IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Edom
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1967PA061008
  • User Pedon ID: 1967PA061008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 395
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 67PA061008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44315
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 40.6608333
  • Std. Longitude: -77.9175000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3.2 mi NE of Neffs Mills on LR 31067, Penn State recreation area.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA061—Huntingdon
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA061—Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-F8—Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Matelski, T. Craft
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Edom
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Edom
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.42 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.83 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.7 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.58 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/1967 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    DASP2

    HIERA

    ROPS

    Danthonia spicata

    Hieracium

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    poverty oatgrass

    hawkweed

    black locust

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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

    19

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    271

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    135

    1000

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    9.8

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior silt loam; granular, and subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume limestone, argillaceous fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02966
    Bt1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume limestone, argillaceous fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02967. Friable to firm moist consistence.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533180; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533180
    Bt2—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent by volume limestone, argillaceous fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02968. Friable to firm moist consistence.
    C—53 to 91 centimeters (20.9 to 35.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior silt loam; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 50 percent by volume limestone, argillaceous fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02969. Friable to firm moist consistence; thin discontinuous clay films between shale fragments; shale structure.
    R—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU02970. Silt coats between shale fragments; calcareous texture; shale structure.