IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Murrill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990PA055024
  • User Pedon ID: 90PA055024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0320
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63367
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.7966652
  • Std. Longitude: -77.5066681
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Biesecker Gap; 1500ft N of T410 and PA2007; Waynesboro Quad
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA055—Franklin
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: nbe, wrk
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 24
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Murrill
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 46 to 122 cm.
  • 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
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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—18

    46—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

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) channery loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.
    AE—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) channery loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.
    EB—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt1—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery silt loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine and medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 37 percent prominent , moist, black stains; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01928. common black stains surface features; common fine and medium faint 10YR54 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226511; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226511
    Bt2—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery clay loam; 11 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) medium faint and 11 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent prominent , moist, black stains; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. few black stains surface features; common medium faint 7.5YR64 mottles; common distinct 10YR63 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 226512; patchy - phpvsfiid 226512
    Bt3—152 to 191 centimeters (59.8 to 75.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent prominent , moist, black stains; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01929. few black stains surface features; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226513; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226513
    2Bt—191 to 203 centimeters (75.2 to 79.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) channery clay loam; cloddy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 37 percent prominent , moist, black stains; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog. common black stains surface features; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226514; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226514