IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Murrill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990PA055019
  • User Pedon ID: 90PA055019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0315
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63362
  • 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: 39.8847237
  • Std. Longitude: -77.9266663
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3 meters S of Fort Loudon, 1 mile SW of intersection of PA 3011 and T 407, 50ft E of PA 3011, McConnellsburg Quad
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA055—Franklin
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: wrk, nbe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 19
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Murrill
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—0

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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

    5

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    207

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) channery loam; moderate medium crumb structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. many fine roots throughout
    Bt1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); 25 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and 75 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) channery clay loam; moderate medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 15 percent prominent 2.5Y 2/0 (2.5Y 2/0), moist, black stains on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. few black stains surface features on faces of peds; many very fine and fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 233974; patchy - phpvsfiid 233974
    Bt2—46 to 74 centimeters (18.1 to 29.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) channery clay loam; 11 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) medium prominent mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent prominent 2.5Y 2/0 (2.5Y 2/0), moist, black stains on faces of peds; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01912. few black stains surface features on faces of peds; common medium prominent 7.5YR64 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 226488; patchy - phpvsfiid 226488
    Bt3—74 to 112 centimeters (29.1 to 44.1 inches); 40 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) and 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery clay loam; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; faint , moist, clay films and 15 percent prominent 2.5Y 2/0 (2.5Y 2/0), moist, black stains on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. few black stains surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226490; patchy - phpvsfiid 226489; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226490; patchy - phpvsfiid 226489
    2Bt1—112 to 193 centimeters (44.1 to 76.0 inches); 40 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery clay loam; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine and fine roots throughout; 15 percent prominent 2.5Y 2/0 (2.5Y 2/0), moist, black stains on faces of peds and 15 percent faint , moist, clay films; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. few black stains surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features; patchy - phpvsfiid 226491; continuous - phpvsfiid 226492; patchy - phpvsfiid 226491; continuous - phpvsfiid 226492
    2Bt2—193 to 203 centimeters (76.0 to 79.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) channery loam; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine and fine roots throughout; 15 percent prominent 2.5Y 2/0 (2.5Y 2/0), moist, black stains on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P01913. few black stains surface features on faces of peds; patchy - phpvsfiid 226493; patchy - phpvsfiid 226493