IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Erie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 776
  • User Pedon ID: 1963PA117008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 63PA117008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45288
  • 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: 41.7822222
  • Std. Longitude: -77.1400000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 480 ft above road T708, 70 ft from W pasture fence, 9.7 mi E of Wellsboro.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA117—Tioga
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41077-G2—Crooked Creek, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Carey, J. Rayburn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Aeric Fragiaquepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Erie
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Erie
  • Classificaton Date - 6/17/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/17/1963 ()
  • 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
    • 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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    451

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    90

    900

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    8.4

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior channery silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05749. Channers and gravel on surface and in horizon.
    E—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium platy, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1) and 11 percent fine distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 11 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05750
    Bwg—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior gravelly silt loam; moderate very coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 60 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 60 percent medium distinct gray (N 5/0) and 60 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05751
    Bx1—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior gravelly loam; moderate very coarse prismatic, and strong coarse platy, and strong coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 60 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 60 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 60 percent coarse prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2); 25 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05752. Gravel and channers grassroots cracks of prisms filled with silt (2.5Y 5/0) gray. Mn stains and concretions.
    Bx2—58 to 97 centimeters (22.8 to 38.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior gravelly loam; strong coarse subangular blocky, and moderate very coarse prismatic structure; extremely firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 60 percent coarse prominent gray (N 5/0) and 60 percent coarse prominent brown (10YR 5/3) and 60 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 25 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05753. "Brown (10YR 5/3) ped coatings, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) outside peds."
    Bx3—97 to 157 centimeters (38.2 to 61.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate very coarse prismatic structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; prominent gray (N 6/0) clay films on all faces of peds and prominent greenish gray (5GY 5/1) clay films on all faces of peds and 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 60 percent coarse distinct greenish gray (5GY 5/1) and 60 percent coarse distinct gray (N 6/0); 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05754. patchy - phpvsfiid 535020; patchy - phpvsfiid 535021; patchy - phpvsfiid 535020; patchy - phpvsfiid 535021
    Bx4—157 to 173 centimeters (61.8 to 68.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior gravelly silty clay loam; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05755. Calcareous shale fragments at 58 inches.