IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Calvin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA107042
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA107042
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 704
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA107042
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45209
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 40.8777778
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2386111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: NUREMBERG, PA QUADRANGLE 2,000 FT SE OF FERNDALE JUNCTION 9,800 FT S OF MT ZION CHURCH 200 FT N OF THE ROAD
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA107—Schuylkill
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA107—Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-H2—Nuremberg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Anderson, T. Craul, M. Horkey, A. Wilkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 42
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Calvin
  • PSC - 25 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/1988 ()
  • 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

    ACRU

    BEAL2

    QUAL

    QURU

    TSCA

    Acer rubrum

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Quercus alba

    Quercus rubra

    Tsuga canadensis

    red maple

    yellow birch

    white oak

    northern red oak

    eastern hemlock

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—16

    16—65

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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

    24

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    330

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    315

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior; weakly smeary; rapid permeability; 4.0 fine and medium roots top of horizon; 2.5 very fine and fine high-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07358; moist when described;
    Ap—3 to 19 centimeters (1.2 to 7.5 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior channery silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 1.8 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine high-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 30 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07359; moist when described;
    Bw—19 to 42 centimeters (7.5 to 16.5 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior very channery silt loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine high-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4) skeletans throughout; 10 percent by volume angular ? to 265-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07360; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534729; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534729
    BC—42 to 68 centimeters (16.5 to 26.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior extremely channery silt loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4) skeletans throughout; 25 percent by volume angular ? to 265-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07361; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534730; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534730
    Cr—68 to 103 centimeters (26.8 to 40.6 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior extremely flaggy loam; 8 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4) skeletans throughout; 5 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 90 percent by volume angular ? to 265-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07362; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534731; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534731
    R—103 to 113 centimeters (40.6 to 44.5 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07363