IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Philo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA055063
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA055063
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 367
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA055063
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44284
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 40.2302778
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6794444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 220 DEGREES D. PIPER FARM, CREEK BOTTOM IN PASTURE.
  • 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: R. Knight, B. Custer, N. Ellenberger, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, acid Fluvaquentic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 63
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Philo
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/30/1988 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    ACSA3

    DAGL

    FRAXI

    POPR

    ROPS

    Acer saccharum

    Dactylis glomerata

    Fraxinus

    Poa pratensis

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    sugar maple

    orchardgrass

    ash

    Kentucky bluegrass

    black locust

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—14

    14—39

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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

    3

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    309

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    225

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    AB—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent by volume rounded ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07057; moist when described;
    Bw1—14 to 39 centimeters (5.5 to 15.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior cobbly loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 1.8 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 12 percent by volume subrounded ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments and 13 percent by volume subrounded ? to 163-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07058; moist when described;
    Bw2—39 to 59 centimeters (15.4 to 23.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior very cobbly loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.3 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 11 percent fine and medium prominent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) and 60 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 6/1); 20 percent by volume subrounded ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments and 20 percent by volume subrounded ? to 163-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07059; moist when described;
    C1—59 to 82 centimeters (23.2 to 32.3 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior extremely gravelly loam; 20 percent clay; structureless massive; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.1 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium moderate-continuity void between rock fragments pores; 11 percent fine and medium distinct brown (10YR 5/3); 20 percent by volume subrounded ? to 163-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments and 40 percent by volume subrounded ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07060; wet when described;
    C2—82 to 112 centimeters (32.3 to 44.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior extremely cobbly loam; 18 percent clay; structureless massive; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 3.0 medium moderate-continuity void between rock fragments pores; 11 percent fine and medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 11 percent fine and medium distinct gray (10YR 5/1); 40 percent by volume subrounded ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments and 40 percent by volume subrounded ? to 163-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # PSU07061; wet when described;