IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Meckesville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA055062
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA055062
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 366
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA055062
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44283
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 40.2311111
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6877778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 160 DEGREES
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA055—Franklin
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA055—Franklin County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Custer, N. Ellenberger, R. Knight, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, acid Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 62
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Meckesville
  • PSC - 23 to 73 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: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/29/1988 ()
  • 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

    BRIN2

    DAGL

    Bromus inermis

    Dactylis glomerata

    smooth brome

    orchardgrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    23—74

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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

    8

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    344

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior channery loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07050; moist when described;
    BE—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior channery loam; 10 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 4.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU07051; moist when described;
    Bt1—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior channery clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots between peds; 0.6 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 14 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU07052; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 533074; continuous - phpvsfiid 533074
    Bt2—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior channery clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots between peds; 0.6 fine to coarse low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 14 percent prominent very dark gray (N 3/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments and 38 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU07053; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 533075; patchy - phpvsfiid 533076; continuous - phpvsfiid 533075; patchy - phpvsfiid 533076
    C1—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior very channery loam; 25 percent clay; strong very coarse platy structure; very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.1 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 38 percent prominent very dark gray (N 3/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments; 25 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # PSU07054; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 533077; patchy - phpvsfiid 533077
    C2—104 to 165 centimeters (40.9 to 65.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior very channery loam; 25 percent clay; strong very coarse platy structure; very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.1 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 38 percent prominent very dark gray (N 3/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments; 25 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # PSU07055; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 533078; patchy - phpvsfiid 533078
    R—165 to 175 centimeters (65.0 to 68.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07056