IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Edom
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969PA009007
  • User Pedon ID: 1969PA009007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 51
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69PA009007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44443
  • 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: 40.1091667
  • Std. Longitude: -78.4925000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Photo 4V-107, 1.75 mi NE of Cessna, SE of jct Rds 05100 & 05052, 500 yd E of house, 70 ft W of tree
  • 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-A4—Everett West, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. J. Ciolkosz and J. Latshaw
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, illitic, active Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Edom
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Edom
  • Classificaton Date - 7/30/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.03 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.03 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.04 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.04 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.05 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.3 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.7 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: 7/30/1969 ()
  • 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

    DAGL

    MESA

    Dactylis glomerata

    Medicago sativa

    orchardgrass

    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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    366

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    315

    1000

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    9.9

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; 4 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00365
    Bt1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate coarse blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00366. continuous - phpvsfiid 531459; continuous - phpvsfiid 531459
    2Bt2—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior clay loam; weak coarse blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; distinct clay films on all faces of peds and distinct clay films on rock fragments; 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00367. continuous - phpvsfiid 531460; continuous - phpvsfiid 531461; continuous - phpvsfiid 531460; continuous - phpvsfiid 531461
    2Bt3—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and reddish brown (5YR 5/4) exterior clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; prominent clay films on all faces of peds and prominent clay films on rock fragments; 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00368. continuous - phpvsfiid 531462; continuous - phpvsfiid 531463; continuous - phpvsfiid 531462; continuous - phpvsfiid 531463
    3C1—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00369. Thin bedded limestone; clay follows in cracks.
    4C2—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/4) interior; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00370. Calcareous shale with clay loam seams and clay flows on the shale.