IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Edom
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1970PA067001
  • User Pedon ID: 1970PA067001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 443
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 70PA067001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44369
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 40.5669444
  • Std. Longitude: -77.3891667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.6 mi E of Mifflintown on Ceder Springs Rd, 225 ft at 260 degrees from home of L. Adams; Fermanagh TTwp.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA067—Juniata
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA605—Juniata and Mifflin Counties, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-E4—Mifflintown, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Petersen, G. Latshaw, S. Ekart
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Edom
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Edom
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.09 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.92 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.94 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.56 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.71 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/1970 ()
  • 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

    DAGL

    TRPR2

    Dactylis glomerata

    Trifolium pratense

    orchardgrass

    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

    13

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    152

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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 (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03325
    Bt1—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silty clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 70 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03326
    Bt2—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior clay; weak medium platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent faint manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments and 70 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03327. Shale fragments are light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4).
    BCt—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay; weak medium platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 roots; 14 percent faint manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments and 38 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03328. Shale fragments are light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4); structure inherited from original shale bedding.
    C—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silty clay; weak medium platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 roots; 14 percent faint manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments and 70 percent clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03329. Texture fills interstices between light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) shale; structure inherited from original shale bedding.
    R—117 to 130 centimeters (46.1 to 51.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU03330. Interbedded shale and limestone nearly vertically bedded.