IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MORRISON
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: PSU pasture
  • User Pedon ID: S2004PA027009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0353
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17682
  • 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: 40.8177795
  • Std. Longitude: -77.8797226
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: HENRY LINN PSU/NRCS SOIL INFILTRATION STUDY. MORRISON SOIL, PSU PASTURE, JULIAN QUAD, CENTRE COUNTY, PA
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-G8—Julian, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: HUDAK, ELLENBERGER
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MORRISON
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 11/4/2004
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone and sandstone
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone and sandstone
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/4/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 24 centimeters (0.0 to 9.4 inches); dark gray (7.5YR 4/1) broken face sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular ? to 30-? millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; 3.5 percent by weight of rock fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02007; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt1—24 to 50 centimeters (9.4 to 19.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular ? to 30-? millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; 5.1 percent by weight of rock fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N02008; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt2—50 to 64 centimeters (19.7 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face channery sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume flat subangular ? to 100-? millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; 5 percent by weight of rock fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; gradual broken boundary. Lab sample # 05N02009; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt/C—64 to 152 centimeters (25.2 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) broken face very channery sandy clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium and coarse platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 60 percent by volume flat subangular ? to 100-? millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; 42.8 percent by weight of rock fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 05N02010; moist when described; observed in trench