IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Calvin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA107051
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA107051
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 713
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA107051
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45219
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.5466667
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2258333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: WAYNE TWP., SCHUYKILL CO., PA. 2700' NW OF PA183, 1100' E. OF FIELD EDGE ASPECT - 234
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. Churchill
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 51
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Calvin
  • PSC - 25 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/1988 ()
  • 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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

    oxic horizon

    cambic horizon

    0—19

    19—55

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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

    4

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    285

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior very channery clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 40 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07433; moist when described;
    Bw1—19 to 31 centimeters (7.5 to 12.2 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) interior extremely channery clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 14 percent faint weak red (10R 4/4) coats on all faces of peds; 60 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07434; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534777; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534777
    Bw2—31 to 55 centimeters (12.2 to 21.7 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) interior extremely channery clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 14 percent faint weak red (10R 4/4) coats on all faces of peds; 75 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07435; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534778; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534778
    C—55 to 69 centimeters (21.7 to 27.2 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) interior extremely channery clay loam; 32 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 2.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 14 percent faint weak red (10R 4/4) coats on all faces of peds; 85 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07436; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534779; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534779
    Cr—69 to 150 centimeters (27.2 to 59.1 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # PSU07437