IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blairton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1972PA041002
  • User Pedon ID: 1972PA041002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 318
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 72PA041002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44230
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 40.2072222
  • Std. Longitude: -77.4730556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 6 mi NW of Newville to Mifflin Elem. School, 0.5 mi W to Craig farm corner, 250 from Rd, SW 220 deg. to pit
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA041—Cumberland
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA041—Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-B4—Newville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Matelski and J. Zarichansky
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Aquic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blairton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blairton
  • Classificaton Date - 7/18/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.16 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.21 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.22 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.88 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/18/1972 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    PHLEU

    Phleum

    timothy

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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

    2

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    200

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    135

    1050

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    10.3

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02386
    BA—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 70 percent clay films; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02387
    Bt—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 70 percent clay films; 11 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1); 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02388
    BC—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 38 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments; 11 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1) and 11 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02389
    R—66 to 152 centimeters (26.0 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU02390; wet, satiated when described;. Vertically bedded shales.