IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blairton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA009013
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA009013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 56
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA009013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44498
  • 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: 39.7958333
  • Std. Longitude: -78.4025000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT 301 DEGREES 1000 FEET S. OF INTERSECTION OF PA26 AND 05011 AND 30 FEET WEST 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: Fine-loamy, mixed, acid Aquic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blairton
  • PSC - 17 to 66 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: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: undulating
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/21/1988 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    2GA

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    Grass, annual

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—17

    17—66

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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

    18

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    295

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    315

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    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 4.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 fine and medium high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06797; moist when described;
    Bt1—17 to 41 centimeters (6.7 to 16.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior channery silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.3 very fine and fine roots between peds; 0.1 fine and medium low-continuity interstitial pores; 38 percent distinct light brown (7.5YR 6/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent medium distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) and 11 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; diffuse broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU06798; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 531470; continuous - phpvsfiid 531470
    Bt2—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) interior channery silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; slow permeability; 0.1 fine roots in cracks; 38 percent distinct pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 60 percent coarse distinct pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2) and 60 percent medium distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6); medium irregular iron-manganese masses; 30 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06799; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 531471; continuous - phpvsfiid 531471
    C—66 to 96 centimeters (26.0 to 37.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very channery loam; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 11 percent medium distinct pink (7.5YR 7/4) and 11 percent medium distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) and 11 percent medium distinct pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2); medium and coarse iron-manganese concretions; 50 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06800; moist when described;
    R—96 to 106 centimeters (37.8 to 41.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # PSU06801