IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelmadine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012PA037001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012PA037001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012PA037001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 41.0786667
  • Std. Longitude: -76.3866750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: CSUID: 947798-Columbia County, 49 Bearfoot Trail Rd. off of route 93. Orangeville, PA. Broad colluvial fan at the base of a sandstone ridge. Parent material looks to be pre-Wisconsinan till.
  • Map Unit: SdB2—Shelmadine silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, moderately eroded
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA037—Columbia
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA037—Columbia County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Chibirka
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.0
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelmadine
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiaquults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 33 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/29/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from sandstone over till derived from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landform: colluvial apron on hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated mudstone
  • Geology: Sherman Creek Member Of Catskill Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/5/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Water Properties:
  • Water pH Method - pH indicator solutions
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2GLA

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    Grasslike, annual

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    33 - 120

    - 87 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—33

    33—120

    50—120

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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

    2

    500

    250

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    210

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    Ap1—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 25 percent sand; 18 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume flat rounded indurated 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-45-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—17 to 33 centimeters (6.7 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 25 percent sand; 18 percent clay; moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; common fine roots throughout; 8 percent medium distinct platy extremely weakly coherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat rounded indurated 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-45-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg—33 to 50 centimeters (13.0 to 19.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay loam; 25 percent sand; 31 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few fine roots throughout; 3 percent faint clay films on top faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent cylindrical extremely weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/) manganese coatings with clear boundaries on faces of peds and 15 percent medium prominent platy extremely weakly coherent cemented reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume charcoal fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-45-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btgx—50 to 95 centimeters (19.7 to 37.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) clay; 22 percent sand; 51 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; few fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films on top faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent cylindrical extremely weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/) manganese coatings with clear boundaries on faces of peds and 15 percent coarse prominent platy extremely weakly coherent cemented reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries on faces of peds and 25 percent coarse prominent platy extremely weakly coherent cemented reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries on faces of peds; 6 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-45-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Btx—95 to 120 centimeters (37.4 to 47.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) cobbly silty clay loam; 17 percent sand; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 7 percent distinct clay films on top faces of peds; 15 percent coarse prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 30 percent coarse prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-45-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume flat rounded indurated 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    2Bt—120 to 134 centimeters (47.2 to 52.8 inches); red (10R 4/6) silty clay; 15 percent sand; 41 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, clay films on top faces of peds; 8 percent medium prominent irregular light reddish gray (2.5YR 7/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout and 25 percent coarse prominent platy extremely weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-45-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket