IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elliber
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969PA009002
  • User Pedon ID: 1969PA009002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 46
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69PA009002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44387
  • 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: 40.1183333
  • Std. Longitude: -78.6127778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 mi SW of Fishertown, Wilson Write farm; Photo 5V-42; 0.5 mi S of 05065 94 ft E of T-488, East Street
  • 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-A5—Bedford, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Grice and J. Latshaw
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elliber
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elliber
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.4 in/hr of percolation rate and 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.3 in/hr of percolation rate and 8.6 in/hr of percolation rate and 9.8 in/hr of percolation rate and 10.4 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: 7/28/1969 ()
  • 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

    TRPR2

    Trifolium pratense

    red 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

    2

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    494

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    90

    1050

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    9.5

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 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, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; 5 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00326
    BA—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior very channery loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 70 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00327
    Bw1—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior very channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 5 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 70 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00328
    Bw2—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior very channery silt loam; weak medium blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00329
    Bw3—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery silt loam; weak medium blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00330
    Bw4—97 to 124 centimeters (38.2 to 48.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery silt loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00331. Lower side of a few large fragments have bands of light gray (10YR 7/1) and edged with strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) bands.
    Bw5—124 to 160 centimeters (48.8 to 63.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery silt loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00332. Lower side of many large coarse fragments have bands of light gray (3-4 mm thick) and are edged with strong brown bands about 3-4 mm thick.
    R—160 to 173 centimeters (63.0 to 68.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU00333. Fractured bedrock (siltstone) with coatings of silt on the faces of the rock fragments.