IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Edom
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975PA119002
  • User Pedon ID: 1975PA119002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 794
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 75PA119002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45308
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 40.9438889
  • Std. Longitude: -76.9291667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 125 ft S of Junction of fairfield Rd. and smoketown Rd on farm lane 100' NE of lane.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA119—Union
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA119—Union County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-H8—Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Ciolkosz, J. Eckenrode, G. Yoder, P. Parrish, L. Taylor
  • 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 - 5/19/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.1 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.1 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.1 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.9 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.6 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.6 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/19/1975 ()
  • 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

    AGRE2

    Agropyron repens

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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

    4

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    191

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    180

    1000

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    9.9

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05939
    Bt1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 70 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05940
    Bt2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 70 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along pores; 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05941
    BC—66 to 99 centimeters (26.0 to 39.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 38 percent distinct manganese or iron-manganese stains and 70 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05942
    C1—99 to 130 centimeters (39.0 to 51.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 38 percent distinct manganese or iron-manganese stains and 70 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels and 70 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05943
    R—130 to 241 centimeters (51.2 to 94.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU05944. Highly fractured shale.