IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weikert
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA009011
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA009011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 55
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA009011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44487
  • 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: 39.8083333
  • Std. Longitude: -78.4161111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT - 166 DEGREE SEE ATTACHED TOPO SHEET. 1500' NW OF BM 1093 AND 500' N. OF PA26.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA009—Bedford
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA009—Bedford County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Knight, B. Custer, N. Ellenberger, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid Lithic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Weikert
  • PSC - 25 to 37 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/1988 ()
  • 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

    CAOV2

    PIVI2

    QUVE

    Carya ovata

    Pinus virginiana

    Quercus velutina

    shagbark hickory

    Virginia pine

    black oak

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—6

    6—19

    37—37

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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

    30

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    372

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    180

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    Oe—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior moderately decomposed plant material; weak fine crumb structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 0.1 very fine and fine discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06792; moist when described;
    A—4 to 10 centimeters (1.6 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior channery silt loam; weak fine crumb structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.1 very fine and fine discontinuous tubular pores; 15 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06793; moist when described;
    Bw—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; rapid permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium void between rock fragments pores; 45 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06794; moist when described;
    C—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior extremely channery silt loam; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium void between rock fragments pores; 80 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06795; moist when described;
    R—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # PSU06796