IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Philo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016PA047002
  • User Pedon ID: S2016PA047002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N2063
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87518
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 41.3289900
  • Std. Longitude: -78.8380800
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Flood plain along Little Toby Creek in Elk County PA appriximately 2.8 miles south on the Rail Trail from the PA Game Commission Building at the interesction of German Settlement Road and Game Commission Road.
  • Map Unit: Ph—Philo silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA047—Elk
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MOR—Morgantown, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA607—Cameron and Elk Counties, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Yuri Plowden
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: dissected plateau
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Mike McDevitt

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Yuri Plowden
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Biol. Crust Type Dominant - none evident
  • Biol. Crust Type Secondary - none evident
  • Phys Crust Subtype - none evident
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • 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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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face fine sandy loam; 5 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) medium roots throughout and many (15.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N09415; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face sand; 5 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N09416; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face sand; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) medium roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N09417; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C/Ab—28 to 40 centimeters (11.0 to 15.7 inches); 60 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face and 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face sandy loam; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) medium roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N09418; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Ab—40 to 50 centimeters (15.7 to 19.7 inches); 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face fine sandy loam; 6 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) medium roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N09419; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bwb1—50 to 67 centimeters (19.7 to 26.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face loam; 8 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; very few (0.1) very fine roots throughout and many (6.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N09420; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bwb2—67 to 109 centimeters (26.4 to 42.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face loam; 8 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; very few (0.1) medium roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 2 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator strip; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N09421; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bwb3—109 to 140 centimeters (42.9 to 55.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face fine sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; very few (0.1) medium roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 5 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented gray (7.5YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N09422; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BCgb—140 to 156 centimeters (55.1 to 61.4 inches); dark reddish gray (2.5YR 4/1) broken face fine sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) medium roots throughout; 10 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix and 20 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N09423; very moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cgb—156 to 178 centimeters (61.4 to 70.1 inches); dark gray (7.5YR 4/1) broken face gravelly coarse sandy loam; 5 percent clay; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (10.0) medium roots throughout and many (15.0) fine roots throughout; medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 20 percent by volume nonflat rounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-35-75 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight sulfurous odor. Lab sample # 16N09424; wet when described; observed in auger, dutch