IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hagerstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1983PA027066
  • User Pedon ID: 1983PA027066
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 83PA027066
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 83PA027066
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44106
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 40.8658333
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7722222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2298 m W of Jct of Rt 144 and Rt 64, 1740 m NNE of Rockview prison, 90 m SE Rockview property line.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-G7—State College, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Cronce and C. Murdy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 66
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 8/20/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/1983 ()
  • 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

    QUERC

    Acer

    Quercus

    maple

    oak

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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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    316

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    135

    1000

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    9.5

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; strong medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01521
    E—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01522. 10% by volume is pores filled with A material.
    BE—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01523. 5% 0.5-1.5 cm chert fragmetns.; patchy - phpvsfiid 532317; patchy - phpvsfiid 532317
    Bt1—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01524. 5% 0.5 to 1.5 cm chert fragments.; patchy - phpvsfiid 532318; patchy - phpvsfiid 532318
    Bt2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior clay; weak medium prismatic, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay films; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01525. 10% 0.5 to 1.5 cm chert fragments; many medium and coarse black oxide stains on ped faces and common fine in ped interiors.; continuous - phpvsfiid 532319; continuous - phpvsfiid 532319
    Bt3—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior clay; weak medium prismatic, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01526. Many medium and coarse black oxide stains on ped faces and few fine in ped interiors.; continuous - phpvsfiid 532320; continuous - phpvsfiid 532320
    3Bt4—97 to 112 centimeters (38.2 to 44.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay films; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01527. Few fine black oxide stains on ped faces.; continuous - phpvsfiid 532321; continuous - phpvsfiid 532321
    3C—112 to 178 centimeters (44.1 to 70.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very channery silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 65 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01528. 15% by volume pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) weathering rinds of massive very fine sand around coarse fragments; 65% carbonate channers.
    3R—178 to 195 centimeters (70.1 to 76.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU01529. Hard gray dolomite; thick bedded (8 to 25 cm) with thin seams of strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay in cracks.