IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leck Kill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1964PA027022
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA027022
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 184
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA027022
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43530
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 40.8786111
  • Std. Longitude: -78.0066667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: N of W Julian along T14007 about 4 mi from US220; 13 guardrail posts from W end of fence, 125' upslope
  • 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: 40078-H1—Black Moshannon, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Carey and R. H. Henry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 22
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leck Kill
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Calvin
  • Classificaton Date - 5/12/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.42 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.67 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.25 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/12/1964 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    AGRE2

    DACA6

    TRIFO

    Agropyron repens

    Daucus carota

    Trifolium

    —

    Queen Anne's lace

    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

    14

    —

    —

    475

    —

    0

    1050

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    8.9

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; 15 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01312. "Occasional redstone 1""x4""x8""; silt and clay bridging few patches; contains layers of B horizon 1"" thick by 6-8"" long; 6.6 colorimetric field"
    Bt1—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01313. 20% coarse fragments 1/3-1.25 inches; 5.8 colorimetric field.
    Bt2—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 40 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01314. 40% 1/8-1.5 inch coarse fragments; medium thick patches of silt and clay films; 5.0 colorimetric field.
    BC—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak very fine blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 75 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01315. Thick silt and clay flows in pores; 5.0 colorimetric field; friable displaced; structure modified by shale.
    C—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 85 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01316. Structure obscured by coarse fragments; friable displaced; 5.2 colorimetric field; silt and clay coatings in pores.
    R—91 to 110 centimeters (35.8 to 43.3 inches); dusky red (10R 3/3) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU01317. Coatings 10YR 4/2-4/3 weak red.