IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Edom
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1970PA067002
  • User Pedon ID: 1970PA067002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 444
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 70PA067002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44370
  • 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: 40.5902778
  • Std. Longitude: -77.3733333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3 mi E of Mifflintown on Rt 35, 0.4 mi on twp. Rd to large willow tree near farm pond on W. Stoner farm
  • 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-E3—Mexico, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Ciolkosz, D. Grice
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Edom
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Edom
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.41 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 26 in/hr of percolation rate and 27.25 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/1970 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    TRPR2

    Trifolium pratense

    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

    8

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    171

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    315

    1000

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    9.9

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 3 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03331
    Bt1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior and reddish brown (5YR 5/4) exterior clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03332. Reddish brown (5YR 5/4) ped faces.; continuous - phpvsfiid 533404; continuous - phpvsfiid 533404
    Bt2—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior and reddish brown (5YR 5/4) exterior clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03333. Reddish brown (5YR 5/4) ped faces.; continuous - phpvsfiid 533405; continuous - phpvsfiid 533405
    C1—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior clay; weak coarse platy structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; 70 percent clay films on rock fragments; 25 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03334. Texture fills interstices between 0.25 inch shale layers; structure related to shale.; patchy - phpvsfiid 533406; patchy - phpvsfiid 533406
    C2—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) interior and brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 70 percent clay films on rock fragments; 2 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 18 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03335. patchy - phpvsfiid 533407; patchy - phpvsfiid 533407
    C3—86 to 132 centimeters (33.9 to 52.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay loam; weak coarse platy structure; 0.5 roots; 70 percent clay films on rock fragments; 90 percent by volume limestone-shale fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03336. Shale fragments coated with silty clay loam; structure related to shale bedding; weakly calcareous.; patchy - phpvsfiid 533408; patchy - phpvsfiid 533408
    R—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU03337. Interbedded thin limestone and calcareous shale.