IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Albrights
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962PA057012
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA057012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 378
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA057012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44296
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 40.0883333
  • Std. Longitude: -78.0625000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Edwards farm; 100 ft N of lane, 500 ft W of Rt 76, 3.3 mi NW of Hustontown, Taylor Twp.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA057—Fulton
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA057—Fulton County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40078-A1—Hustontown, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, R. Matelski, F. Loughry, N. Churchill, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active Aquic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Albrights
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kedron
  • Classificaton Date - 8/28/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.16 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.4 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.4 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.96 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.96 in/hr of percolation rate and 1 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/28/1962 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    DASP2

    POA

    SOLID

    TRRE3

    Danthonia spicata

    Poa

    Solidago

    Trifolium repens

    poverty oatgrass

    bluegrass

    goldenrod

    white clover

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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

    7

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    293

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    315

    1000

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 5 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02842
    E—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 5 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02843
    Bt—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior channery silt loam; moderate fine prismatic structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films; 1 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and 1 percent medium distinct pinkish gray (5YR 6/2); 10 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02844. 15-20% fragments.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533104; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533104
    Bx1—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior channery fine sandy loam; weak medium platy, and moderate fine blocky structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 0.5 roots; 1 percent fine faint weak red (2.5YR 5/2) and 1 percent fine faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02845. 25-30% hard fragments.
    Bx2—89 to 102 centimeters (35.0 to 40.2 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior channery fine sandy loam; weak medium platy, and moderate fine blocky structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 0.5 roots; 14 percent black (N 2/0) coats; 1 percent fine distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4); 30 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02846. 30-35% hard fragments.
    2C—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior channery fine sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent black (N 2/0) coats and 14 percent clay films; 11 percent medium distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 11 percent medium distinct pale red (2.5YR 6/2); 50 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02847. "30-35% fragments, mostly less than 0.25 inch."