IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rushtown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013PA099001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013PA099001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2013PA099001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0286
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79417
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 40.2710500
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6405800
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: On the hillslope in the woods above the shale borrow pit on the south side of route 274 in the Tuscarora State Forest.
  • Map Unit: WkF—Weikert and Klinesville very shaly silt loams, 25 to 75 percent slopes
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA099—Perry
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joseph Kraft
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mesic Ruptic-ultic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/2013
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - shrub
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: thin, loess influenced colluvium derived from sandstone and shale over frost churned residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landform: hill on mountain valley
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent sandstone and shale with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Clinton Shale formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Joe Kraft
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUPR2

    QURU

    VAAN

    Quercus prinus

    Quercus rubra

    Vaccinium angustifolium

    chestnut oak

    northern red oak

    lowbush blueberry

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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

    24

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    384

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    283

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    Oi—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) broken face; very friable; fragments.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Oa—6 to 8 centimeters (2.4 to 3.1 inches); black (5YR 2.5/1) broken face; very friable; fragments.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw1—8 to 31 centimeters (3.1 to 12.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face channery silt loam; 14 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; 8 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 12 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01447; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw2—31 to 57 centimeters (12.2 to 22.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face very channery silt loam; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; 15 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01448; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw3—57 to 75 centimeters (22.4 to 29.5 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face extremely channery silt loam; 21 percent clay; weak thick platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very coarse roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium noncoherent cemented manganese coatings with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 70 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 14N01449; moist when described; observed in trench
    C1—75 to 129 centimeters (29.5 to 50.8 inches); 70 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face extremely channery silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few medium roots around fragments and few fine roots around fragments and few coarse roots around fragments; 5 percent clay films on surfaces along pores and 10 percent clay films on rock fragments; 15 percent fine noncoherent cemented manganese coatings with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 50 percent by volume flat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01450; moist when described; observed in trench
    C2—129 to 165 centimeters (50.8 to 65.0 inches); 70 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face extremely channery silt loam; 17 percent clay; massive parts to weak thick platy; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common medium roots around fragments and few fine roots around fragments; 15 percent fine noncoherent cemented manganese coatings with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 80 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 14N01451; moist when described; observed in trench
    Cr—165 to 211 centimeters (65.0 to 83.1 inches); channers; 15 percent clay; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few medium roots around fragments; 90 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-100-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 14N01452; moist when described; observed in trench