IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elliber
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1970PA099009
  • User Pedon ID: 1970PA099009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 646
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 70PA099009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44594
  • 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: 40.3841667
  • Std. Longitude: -77.3447222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Barkley Farm, 1.5 mi N of Loysville on LR 50010 to ridgetop and 100 ft E into woods.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA099—Perry
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA099—Perry County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-D3—Ickesburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Sautter and R. Cunningham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elliber
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elliber
  • Classificaton Date - 6/17/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.42 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.54 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.54 in/hr of percolation rate and 8.35 in/hr of percolation rate and 35 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.35 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.35 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/17/1970 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • 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

    ACER

    FAGUS

    PRSE2

    ROPS

    VITIS

    Acer

    Fagus

    Prunus serotina

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    Vitis

    maple

    beech

    black cherry

    black locust

    grape

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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

    3

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    265

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    0

    1050

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    10

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04999
    E—8 to 36 centimeters (3.1 to 14.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05000
    Bt1—36 to 71 centimeters (14.2 to 28.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05001
    Bt2—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05002. Few black coatings.
    Bt3—89 to 119 centimeters (35.0 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels; 5 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05003. Many black coatings.
    Bt4—119 to 150 centimeters (46.9 to 59.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels; 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05004. Many black coatings.
    Bt5—150 to 178 centimeters (59.1 to 70.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels; 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05005. Many black coatings.