IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tioga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1964PA043002
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA043002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 320
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA043002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44233
  • Print Date: 5/11/2024

    • 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: 40.4316667
  • Std. Longitude: -76.9897222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Haldeman Island, 0.5 mi ENE of Rts 322 and 11, 3 mi N of Duncannon, Reed Twp.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA043—Dauphin
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA043—Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-D8—Halifax, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Cary, R. Googins, R. Kinnard
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Dystric Fluventic Eutrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tioga
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashton
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 36 in/hr of percolation rate and 45 in/hr of percolation rate and 46.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 46.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 23 in/hr of percolation rate and 24 in/hr of percolation rate and 24.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 28.5 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/22/1964 ()
  • 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

    AMAR2

    BRTE

    TRPR2

    Ambrosia artemisiifolia

    Bromus tectorum

    Trifolium pratense

    annual ragweed

    cheatgrass

    red 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

    0

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    113

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    1000

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    10.4

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02402. Less than 1% fragments.
    A/B—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU02403. Less than 1% fragments.
    Bt1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; clay films between sand grains; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02404. Less than 1% fragments.
    Bt2—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; clay films between sand grains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02405. Less than 1% fragments.
    Bt3—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02406. Less than 1% fragments.
    BC1—71 to 84 centimeters (28.0 to 33.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; clay films between sand grains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02407. Less than 1% fragments.
    BC2—84 to 99 centimeters (33.1 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loamy sand; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02408. Clay bridging on bands; less than 1% fragments.
    BC3—99 to 109 centimeters (39.0 to 42.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02409. Clay bridging on bands; less than 1% fragments; brown (7.5YR 5/2) bands.
    BC4—109 to 124 centimeters (42.9 to 48.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 14 percent coats; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02410. Less than 1% fragments.
    BC5—124 to 155 centimeters (48.8 to 61.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior loamy fine sand; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 14 percent clay films between sand grains; 5 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02411. Less than 5% fragments; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) bands; bands slightly stick.
    BC6—155 to 168 centimeters (61.0 to 66.1 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior loamy fine sand; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 5 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02412. Silt lenses and gravelly 100 mm lenses; less than 5% fragments.
    2C1—168 to 198 centimeters (66.1 to 78.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly very fine sand; weak coarse platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02413
    2C2—198 to 213 centimeters (78.0 to 83.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior very gravelly loamy sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 80 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02414. Silt and clay caps on gravels.