IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dunning
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1963PA027009
  • User Pedon ID: 1963PA027009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 171
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 63PA027009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43516
  • 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: 40.7805556
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7602778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 110 ft WSW of center of Rd, 30 ft W of prop. line dividing E. Horner and R. Reish farms, Ferguson Twp.
  • 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-G7—State College, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. G. Loughry, C. F. Engle and R. H. Henry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Fluventic Haplaquolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dunning
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dunning
  • Classificaton Date - 10/29/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/29/1963 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - wetlands
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • 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

    CRSC

    TYPHA

    Crypsis schoenoides

    Typha

    swamp pricklegrass

    cattail

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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

    1

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    354

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    0

    1000

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    9.3

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01214
    A2—8 to 38 centimeters (3.1 to 15.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior silt loam; weak granular structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01215
    BAg—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); dark greenish gray (5GY 4/1) interior silty clay loam; slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; 11 percent medium faint olive (5Y 4/3); fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01216. Polygons breaking to moderate medium blocky.
    Btg1—48 to 91 centimeters (18.9 to 35.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and gray (N 5/0) exterior silty clay loam; slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; gray (N 5/0) clay films on surfaces along root channels; 11 percent coarse distinct olive (5Y 4/4) and 11 percent coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01217. Less than 1% coarse fragments; polygons breaking to moderate medium blocky
    Btg2—91 to 132 centimeters (35.8 to 52.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and gray (N 5/0) exterior silty clay loam; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; clay films on surfaces along root channels; 60 percent medium distinct gray (N 5/0) and 60 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01218. N 5/0 gray coatings 2.5Y 5/4 olive brown
    Cg1—132 to 168 centimeters (52.0 to 66.1 inches); gray (N 5/0) interior silty clay loam; structureless massive; slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; 11 percent medium distinct olive (5Y 5/3) and 11 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6); fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01219
    2Cg2—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) interior gravelly clay loam; slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; 25 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01220. 25% coarse fragments; streaks 2.5Y 4/4 olive brown.