IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elliber
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969PA009001
  • User Pedon ID: 1969PA009001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 45
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69PA009001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44376
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.0972222
  • Std. Longitude: -78.6305556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 mi SE of New Paris; Ned Winegardner farm, photo no. 5V-78; 119 ft W from T-488, 116 ft S from T-514
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA009—Bedford
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA009—Bedford County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40078-A6—Schellsburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Grice, G. W. Petersen and J. J. Noll
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elliber
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elliber
  • Classificaton Date - 7/29/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.9 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 11.1 in/hr of percolation rate and 14.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 17.2 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/29/1969 ()
  • 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

    2GA

    TRIFO

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    Trifolium

    Grass, annual

    clover

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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

    3

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    518

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    180

    1050

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    —

    —

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    9.4

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; very channery loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 roots; 60 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00319. Chert
    Bw1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00320. Chert. Structure modified by coarse fragments.
    Bw2—46 to 74 centimeters (18.1 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00321. Chert. Structure modified by coarse fragments.
    Bw3—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; black (N 2/0) coats on all faces of peds and 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 25 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00322. Chert. Few streaks and splotches of pale brown (10YR 6/3); silt films in pores.
    Bw4—104 to 135 centimeters (40.9 to 53.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 38 percent faint black (N 2/0) coats; 25 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00323. "Chert. Few silt films in pores. Few streaks and splotches of pale brown (10YR 6/3), light gray (10YR 7/1) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6)"
    Bw5—135 to 178 centimeters (53.1 to 70.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 30 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00324. Chert. Few black coatings on coarse fragments; common streaks and splotches of light gray (10YR 7/1) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6)
    R—178 to 193 centimeters (70.1 to 76.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00325. Siltstone; black coatings on fragments.