IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hagerstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1983PA027067
  • User Pedon ID: 1983PA027067
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 83PA027067
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 83PA027067
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44107
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 40.8647222
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7725000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: R.D.5, Bellefonte PA, 2298 m W of Jct Rt 144 & Rt 64, 1740 m NNE of Rockview Prison 130 m SE of prop. 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: Richard Cronce and Carson Murdy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 67
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duffield
  • 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

    2

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    318

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    135

    1000

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    9.5

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01530
    E—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01531
    EB—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01532
    Bt1—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01533. patchy - phpvsfiid 532322; patchy - phpvsfiid 532322
    Bt2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels and 38 percent distinct black (N 2/0) oxide coats on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume limestone, argillaceous fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01534. "20% highly weathered and disoriented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) shaly dolomite fragments crushing to silt loam; coarse fragments, soil horizons, bedrock highly contorted."; patchy - phpvsfiid 532323; patchy - phpvsfiid 532323
    3BC—76 to 104 centimeters (29.9 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 25 percent by volume limestone, argillaceous fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01535. Yellower material is less clayey than redder material; 25% highly weathered and disoriented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) shaly dolomite.; patchy - phpvsfiid 532325; patchy - phpvsfiid 532325
    3C1—104 to 137 centimeters (40.9 to 53.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very channery silty clay loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 80 percent by volume limestone, argillaceous fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01536. 80% highly weatered and semi-oriented pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) dolomite with strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) weatering rinds.
    3C2—137 to 155 centimeters (53.9 to 61.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery silt loam; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 90 percent by volume limestone, argillaceous fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01537. 90% highly shattered and slightly disoriented dolomite; soil material is weathering rind like.
    3C3—155 to 168 centimeters (61.0 to 66.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior channery very fine sand, clay loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 25 percent by volume limestone, argillaceous fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01538. Gray (10YR 5/1) channery very fine sand and 35% strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; thin patchy clay films on strong brown ped faces.
    3R—168 to 186 centimeters (66.1 to 73.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU01539. "2-8cm thick bedded dolomite. Bedrock, coarse fragments, soil horizon highly contorted."