IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chilhowie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969PA009008
  • User Pedon ID: 1969PA009008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 52
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69PA009008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44454
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 40.1288889
  • Std. Longitude: -78.4722222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2.75 mi SE of St Clairsville, Photo 4V-77; about 300 ft NE of Rd T-545, approx 400 ft NE jct T-545 & 05052
  • 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-B4—New Enterprise, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.B. Carey, G. Grice, and R. Speir
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chilhowie
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Edom
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.1 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.2 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.3 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.4 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.1 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.1 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: 8/5/1969 ()
  • 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

    MESA

    Medicago sativa

    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

    13

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    378

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    248

    1000

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    9.8

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00371
    Bt1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior clay; moderate medium prismatic, and strong medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00372. Shale and limestone fragments.; continuous - phpvsfiid 531464; continuous - phpvsfiid 531464
    Bt2—41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior clay; moderate medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU00373. Coarse fragments are shale and limestone; many fine brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) soft shale chips.; continuous - phpvsfiid 531465; continuous - phpvsfiid 531465
    C1—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU00374. Coarse fragments are shale and limestone; soil is also yellowish brown (5YR 5/6); brown blotches of (10YR 4/3).; continuous - phpvsfiid 531466; continuous - phpvsfiid 531466
    C2—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); silty clay; structureless massive; 0.5 roots; clay films on rock fragments; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00375. Blue impure limestone and greenish shaly limestone with a few seams of light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4); strongly calcareous.