IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hagerstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1983PA027071
  • User Pedon ID: 1983PA027071
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 83PA027071
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 83PA027071
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44112
  • 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: 40.8697222
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7713889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2150 m W of Jct Rt 144 & Rt 64, 1830 m NNE of Rockview Prison, 10 m E of prop. line, R.D.5 Bellefonte PA
  • 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 #: 71
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duffield
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/1983
  • 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: 8/25/1983 ()
  • 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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    324

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    180

    1000

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    9.4

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior silt loam; strong very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 fine and medium roots and 3.0 coarse roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01570
    E—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine and medium roots and 3.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01571
    BE—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01572. 5% 1-3 cm chert fragments.
    Bt1—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01573. 10% 1-cm chert fragments.; continuous - phpvsfiid 532352; continuous - phpvsfiid 532352
    Bt2—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent distinct black (N 2/0) oxide coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01574. continuous - phpvsfiid 532353; continuous - phpvsfiid 532353
    3Bt3—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01575. continuous - phpvsfiid 532355; continuous - phpvsfiid 532355
    3C—112 to 142 centimeters (44.1 to 55.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01576. "5% 1-3 cm chert fragments; mottled horizon noted in other pits, the horizon conforms to the boundary of underlying rock; bedrock is shattered and disoriented to 213 cm."; patchy - phpvsfiid 532356; patchy - phpvsfiid 532356
    3R1—142 to 188 centimeters (55.9 to 74.0 inches); light gray (N 7/0) interior and white (N 8/0) interior; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01577. Slightly disoriented thick bedded (12-25 cm) dolomite; soil between rocks is strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam.
    3R2—188 to 224 centimeters (74.0 to 88.2 inches); light gray (N 7/0) interior and white (N 8/0) interior; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01578. Thin bedded (1-2 cm) highly weathered light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) shaly dolomite crushing to silt loam texture; several irregular 2-4 cm seams of strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; rock controlled structure; str. brn mat. is sticky plastic
    3R3—224 to 264 centimeters (88.2 to 103.9 inches); light gray (N 7/0) interior and white (N 8/0) interior; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01579. "Same as R2 horizon, separated for sampling."
    3R4—264 to 279 centimeters (103.9 to 109.8 inches); light gray (N 7/0) interior and white (N 8/0) interior; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01580. Texture is shaly dolomite crushing to silt loam; rock seams separated by seams of brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) less weatered shaly material; rock controlled structure.