IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kreamer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969PA109005
  • User Pedon ID: 1969PA109005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 722
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69PA109005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45229
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 40.8161111
  • Std. Longitude: -76.9250000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Gargie Farm, 2 mi W of Salem, 200 ft N of T443.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA109—Snyder
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA109—Snyder County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-G8—Freeburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Guernsey, G. Latshaw
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kreamer
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kreamer
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.05 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.05 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/11/1969 ()
  • 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

    CAREX

    LOAR10

    PHLEU

    TORA2

    TRPR2

    TRRE3

    Carex

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Phleum

    Toxicodendron radicans

    Trifolium pratense

    Trifolium repens

    sedge

    tall fescue

    timothy

    eastern poison ivy

    red clover

    white 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

    4

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    183

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    0

    1000

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU05464
    Bw—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 60 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU05465
    Bt1—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 60 percent medium distinct weak red (2.5YR 5/2) and 60 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05466
    Bt2—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse and very coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 14 percent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains; 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU05467
    2Bt3—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky, and moderate coarse and very coarse prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 60 percent coarse prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and 60 percent coarse prominent light gray (10YR 7/1); 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05468. patchy - phpvsfiid 534833; patchy - phpvsfiid 534833
    2Bt4—102 to 130 centimeters (40.2 to 51.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face silty clay loam; moderate coarse and very coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 60 percent coarse prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and 60 percent coarse prominent light gray (10YR 7/1); 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05469
    2Bt5—130 to 157 centimeters (51.2 to 61.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face silty clay; moderate coarse and very coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 60 percent coarse prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and 60 percent coarse prominent light gray (10YR 7/1); 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05470