IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Murrill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1971PA027030
  • User Pedon ID: 1971PA027030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 71PA027030
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43532
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.8738889
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6436111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Wolfe farm, Gregg Twp., 3 mi E of Centre Hall on Rt192, 0.25 mi N of Rt 192
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA027—Centre County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-G6—Centre Hall, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D.Grice,G.Herrold,R.Cunningham,G.Richard,R.Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 30
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Murrill
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Murrill
  • Classificaton Date - 5/25/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.83 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/25/1971 ()
  • 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
    • 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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    387

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    180

    1000

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01329
    Bt1—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; 14 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01330
    Bt2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 70 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels and 70 percent prominent black (N 2/0) coats on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01331
    Bt3—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior gravelly clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 70 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels and 70 percent prominent black (N 2/0) coats on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01332
    2Bt4—104 to 132 centimeters (40.9 to 52.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior silty clay; weak very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 38 percent prominent black (N 2/0) coats on all faces of peds and 70 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01333
    2BC—132 to 170 centimeters (52.0 to 66.9 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 38 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 38 percent prominent black (N 2/0) coats on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01334
    2C—170 to 190 centimeters (66.9 to 74.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 14 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01335