IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mardin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 755
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA115012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 755
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA115012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45265
  • Print Date: 5/14/2024

    • 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: 41.9452778
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0719444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 90 ft W of T768 1000 ft N of Rt. 471, E of Rt 858 1.6 mi from Rushville, 13.5 mi W of Montrose.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA115—Susquehanna
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41076-H1—Friendsville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, D. Pease, R. Matelski, W. Steputis, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mardin
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mardin
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/28/1958 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    PHLEU

    Phleum

    timothy

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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

    10

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    500

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    270

    900

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    8.2

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 35 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05669
    E—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine platy structure; friable; 35 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05670
    BA—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05671
    E'—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior channery loam; weak fine and medium platy structure; friable, nonplastic; 11 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 45 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05672
    B'gx1—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior channery silt loam; moderate medium blocky, and platy, and weak fine prismatic structure; very firm, slightly plastic; brittle; 14 percent faint coats; 1 percent coarse prominent gray (10YR 6/1) and 1 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6); 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05673
    B'gx2—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior channery silt loam; weak fine prismatic, and platy, and moderate medium blocky structure; very firm, slightly plastic; brittle; faint coats; 1 percent coarse prominent gray (10YR 6/1) and 1 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6); 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05674. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534989; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534989
    C—97 to 114 centimeters (38.2 to 44.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior channery silt loam; weak medium platy structure; 14 percent faint coats; 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05675. Some black coatings on peds.