IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leck Kill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1964PA043004
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA043004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 322
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA043004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44235
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 40.5744444
  • Std. Longitude: -76.8688889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 60 ft W of farm lane 0.5 mi from Rt 25, 3 mi W of Berrysburg, Mifflin Twp; Strohecker 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-E7—Elizabethville, 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 #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leck Kill
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Calvin
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 1.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.83 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.83 in/hr of percolation rate and 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 3 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.33 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

    AVENA

    Avena

    oat

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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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    207

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    0

    1050

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 10 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02420
    Bw1—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior silt loam; blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels and 14 percent clay films on rock fragments; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02421
    Bw2—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels and distinct clay films on rock fragments; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02422
    BC—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); weak red (10R 5/3) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 60 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02423. Structure modified by shale; medium coatings on clay films.
    C—64 to 117 centimeters (25.2 to 46.1 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior silty clay loam; very firm, moderately sticky, nonplastic; distinct coats; 90 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02424. Few roots to 30 inches; structure modified by shale fillings.
    R—117 to 165 centimeters (46.1 to 65.0 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior; 98 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02425