IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Calvin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1964PA043003
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA043003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 321
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA043003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44234
  • 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: 40.5597222
  • Std. Longitude: -76.9405556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: S of Rd 0.5 mi W of T370, 2 mi NE of Rt 45, Upper Paxton Twp, on the Lebo farm.
  • 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-E8—Millersburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Cary, R. Googins, R. Kinnard
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Calvin
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Leck Kill
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 2.58 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.92 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.83 in/hr of percolation rate and 5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.92 in/hr of percolation rate and 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.92 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.08 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: medium
  • 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 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    MESA

    Medicago sativa

    alfalfa

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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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    177

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    0

    1000

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    10.2

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 12 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02415
    Bw1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02416
    Bw2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 40 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02417. Medium silt and clay coats.
    BC—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior silt loam; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 65 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02418. Structure modified by shale; thick silt coatings.
    R—69 to 78 centimeters (27.2 to 30.7 inches); dusky red (10R 3/3) interior; clay films; 98 percent by volume shale, acid fragments. Lab sample # PSU02419