IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pope
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969PA009010
  • User Pedon ID: 1969PA009010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 54
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69PA009010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44476
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 40.0138889
  • Std. Longitude: -78.5916667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Photo 5V-36; W of Pa 31 1/4 mi S of 05097, S of 05097. From site to pole 7-15198 is 132 ft, 60 degrees
  • 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: J.B. Carey, R. Speir, J.Greenawalt, R.Cunningham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active Fluventic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pope
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pope
  • Classificaton Date - 7/29/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.3 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.2 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 7.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 9.2 in/hr of percolation rate and 10.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 11.9 in/hr of percolation rate and 12.4 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: flood plain
  • 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

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    Grass, annual

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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

    1

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    344

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    68

    1000

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    10

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    Ap—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; brown (7.5YR 4/2) coats; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00386
    Bw1—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak medium blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00387
    Bw2—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed and brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loam; weak medium blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00388. Silt coats in root channels and pores.
    2Bw3—74 to 109 centimeters (29.1 to 42.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak coarse platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 1 percent fine faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00389. Thin silt coats in pores.
    2Bw4—109 to 124 centimeters (42.9 to 48.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 11 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 11 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00390. Thin silt coats
    2BC—124 to 163 centimeters (48.8 to 64.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent coarse distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 1 percent coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00391. Thin silt coats in pores.
    3C1—163 to 183 centimeters (64.2 to 72.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent coarse distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 60 percent coarse distinct reddish yellow (5YR 6/8); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00392. Thick silt and clay coats on peds and on pores
    3C2—183 to 203 centimeters (72.0 to 79.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior very gravelly sandy loam; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 60 percent coarse distinct reddish yellow (5YR 6/8); 5 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00393. Thick silt and clay coats on peds and in pores