IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tygart
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA055068
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA055068
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 372
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA055068
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44290
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025
  • 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: 40.2236111
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6966667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 320 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: R. Knight, N. Ellenberger, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aeric Endoaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 68
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tygart
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/30/1988 ()
  • 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

    POPR

    Poa pratensis

    Kentucky bluegrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    0—20

    —-

    —-

    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

    2

    294

    315

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silt loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine and medium crumb structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.8 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 3 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07085; moist when described;
    Bt—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior silty clay loam; 40 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.3 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.6 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 70 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine and medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 60 percent fine and medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/2); 3 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07086; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 533082; continuous - phpvsfiid 533082
    Btg—46 to 72 centimeters (18.1 to 28.3 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior silty clay loam; 40 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.1 very fine and fine roots between peds; 0.1 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 70 percent distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint light gray (10YR 7/1) and 60 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); 5 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07087; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 533083; continuous - phpvsfiid 533083
    Bt1—72 to 108 centimeters (28.3 to 42.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 14 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1) black stains throughout and 70 percent prominent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 11 percent medium and coarse prominent light gray (10YR 7/1); 11 percent fine and medium irregular iron-manganese concretions; 10 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07088; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 533084; patchy - phpvsfiid 533085; continuous - phpvsfiid 533084; patchy - phpvsfiid 533085
    2Bt2—108 to 150 centimeters (42.5 to 59.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior stony silt loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; slow permeability; 38 percent faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay films on all faces of peds and 38 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1) black stains throughout; 1 percent coarse prominent light gray (10YR 7/1) and 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8); 60 percent medium platy iron-manganese concretions; 10 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded ? to 425-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07089; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 533086; patchy - phpvsfiid 533087; continuous - phpvsfiid 533086; patchy - phpvsfiid 533087
    2Bt3—150 to 200 centimeters (59.1 to 78.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior stony silt loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; slow permeability; 14 percent faint light brown (7.5YR 6/4) clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent prominent very dark gray (N 3/0) black stains throughout; 1 percent fine distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6); 60 percent medium platy iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume subrounded ? to 425-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # PSU07090; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533088; continuous - phpvsfiid 533089; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533088; continuous - phpvsfiid 533089