IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pope
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA027084
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA027084
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 220
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA027084
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44122
  • 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: 40.8675000
  • Std. Longitude: -77.9302778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3.75 mi ENE of Julian along Bald Eagle Creek on the northwest side of the creek
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA027—Centre County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-G8—Julian, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Edward J. Ciokosz, Robert R. Dobos and Jon Pollack
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over clayey, mixed Fluventic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 84
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pope
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pope
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/17/1988 ()
  • 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

    PRUNU

    ULMUS

    Prunus

    Ulmus

    plum

    elm

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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

    1

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    272

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    110

    990

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    10.1

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01669
    Ab—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine and medium roots; 38 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2) organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01670
    Bw1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01671
    Bw2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine and medium roots; 38 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01672
    Bw3—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine and medium roots; 38 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01673
    Bw4—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 38 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01674
    BC—104 to 114 centimeters (40.9 to 44.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior gravelly silt loam; structureless medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 0.5 fine roots; 60 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 60 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2); 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01675
    2C1—114 to 142 centimeters (44.9 to 55.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 fine roots; 14 percent clay films on rock fragments; 60 percent medium and coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 27 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 28 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01676; wet, satiated when described;
    2C2—142 to 168 centimeters (55.9 to 66.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 14 percent clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 27 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 28 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01677; wet, satiated when described;