IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Edom
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1961PA027001
  • User Pedon ID: 1961PA027001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 163
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 61PA027001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43508
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 40.7080556
  • Std. Longitude: -77.9452778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3 mi W of Pine Grove Mills, S of Rt 45, 160 ft S of field 38, 215 ft E of W side of field 38 boundary.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA027—Centre County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-F8—Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F.G. Loughry, L. Johnson, R. Zimmerman, R.H. Henry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Edom
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chambersburg
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/1961 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    DAGL

    Dactylis glomerata

    orchardgrass

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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

    6

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    378

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    270

    1000

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    9.3

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume angular shale, calcareous fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01158
    Bt—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 fine roots; 38 percent faint clay films; 30 percent by volume angular shale, calcareous fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU01159. patchy - phpvsfiid 532052; patchy - phpvsfiid 532052
    BCt—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior very channery silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 45 percent by volume angular shale, calcareous fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01160
    C—41 to 109 centimeters (16.1 to 42.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and gray (10YR 6/1) interior very channery clay; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 45 percent by volume angular shale, calcareous fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.1, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01161