IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): HAGERSTOWN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: Rock Springs
  • User Pedon ID: S2004PA027014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0358
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17687
  • 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: 40.7180290
  • Std. Longitude: -77.9356689
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: HENRY LINN PSU/NRCS SOIL INFILTRATION STUDY. HAGERSTOWN, CROPLAND, ROCK SPRINGS AGRONOMY FARM AT PSU IN PINE GROVE MILLS, PINE GROVE MILLS QUAD IN CENTRE COUNTY, PA
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-F8—Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ECKENRODE, PLOWDEN, ELLENBERGER
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: TRENCH
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - HAGERSTOWN
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2004
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/16/2004 (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
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02035; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt1—23 to 32 centimeters (9.1 to 12.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; 42 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 fine roots throughout; 0.8 fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 5 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02036; moist when described; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 278040; continuous - phpvsfiid 278041; patchy - phpvsfiid 278040; continuous - phpvsfiid 278041
    Bt2—32 to 71 centimeters (12.6 to 28.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face clay; 50 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.8 fine roots throughout; 0.8 fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 80 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent coarse prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented manganese masses with sharp boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N02037; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 278042; patchy - phpvsfiid 278043; continuous - phpvsfiid 278042; patchy - phpvsfiid 278043
    Bt3—71 to 124 centimeters (28.0 to 48.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) broken face clay; 65 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 40 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02038; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 278044; patchy - phpvsfiid 278045; continuous - phpvsfiid 278044; patchy - phpvsfiid 278045
    R—124 centimeters (48.8 inches); fragments.; observed in trench