IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Murrill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990PA055022
  • User Pedon ID: 90PA055022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0318
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63365
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 39.8741684
  • Std. Longitude: -77.9319458
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.25 meters W of intersection of Pa75 and T405, 1025 feet N of T405, 3 Miles N of Mercersburg, Pa(Gingrich Farm) Mercersburg Quad
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA055—Franklin
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: nbe, wrk, eaw
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 22
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Murrill
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1990
  • 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: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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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    270

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine and medium crumb structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01920. many very fine and fine roots throughout
    BE—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. few fine roots throughout
    Bt1—36 to 76 centimeters (14.2 to 29.9 inches); 10 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and 90 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very fine and fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct , moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01921. few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; patchy - phpvsfiid 226507; patchy - phpvsfiid 226507
    Bt2—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 10 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and 80 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly silty clay; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very fine and fine roots throughout; 55 percent distinct , moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01922. many clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; continuous - phpvsfiid 226508; continuous - phpvsfiid 226508
    2Bt1—102 to 178 centimeters (40.2 to 70.1 inches); 10 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 80 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) very cobbly silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very fine and fine roots throughout; 55 percent distinct , moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01923. many clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; patchy - phpvsfiid 226509; patchy - phpvsfiid 226509
    2Bt2—178 to 229 centimeters (70.1 to 90.2 inches); 20 percent light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) and 20 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) and 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) very cobbly silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very fine and fine roots throughout; 55 percent distinct , moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P01924. many clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; patchy - phpvsfiid 226510; patchy - phpvsfiid 226510