IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Penn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 620
  • User Pedon ID: 1961PA091015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 620
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 61PA091015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44566
  • 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: 40.2091667
  • Std. Longitude: -75.4841667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; Perkiomen Township, 1 mile north of Trappe, 2 miles northwest of Collegeville, east of Church Road across from entrance to farm buildings in second strip north of the pasture fence, 300 feet east of light pole NO 31, 330 feet east of pole NO 32, 48 feet from south of the top strip boundary, 72 feet north of the bottom of the strip boundary in 1961.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA091—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA091—Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-B4—Collegeville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, L. Seglin, R. Smith, I. Levitan, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Penn
  • PSC - 20 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/2014
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penn
  • Classificaton Date - 4/3/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.18 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.39 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.49 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.61 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.68 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.78 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.62 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: lowland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: shale and siltstone
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/3/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    GLMA4

    Glycine max

    soybean

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—43

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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

    4

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    70

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    135

    1100

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    10.8

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume flat subangular shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04767; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume flat subangular shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04768; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Partial clay films.
    Bt2—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct clay films on top faces of peds; 25 percent by volume flat subangular shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04769; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 40 percent by volume flat subangular shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04770; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Few partial clay films on ped faces. 50% fragments. Common black coatings on shale fragments.
    C—53 to 86 centimeters (20.9 to 33.9 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) interior channery silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; firm; 40 percent by volume flat subangular shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU04771; moist when described; observed in pit, small. 90% shale framgents. Few black coatings on shale fragments and partial clay films.
    Cr—86 to 111 centimeters (33.9 to 43.7 inches); dusky red (10R 3/3) bedrock; moderately rapid permeability; weakly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small