IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Albrights
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1966PA107002
  • User Pedon ID: 1966PA107002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 66PA107002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44643
  • 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: 40.6544444
  • Std. Longitude: -76.5216667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 316 ft s of Hickory tree E of T480, .55 mi N of Valley View.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA107—Schuylkill
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA107—Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-F5—Valley View, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, L. Staley, D. Beltz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Albrights
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Albrights
  • Classificaton Date - 6/4/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.38 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/4/1966 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    5

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    —

    238

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    0

    1100

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    9.8

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    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular, and platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU05317
    Bt1—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films; 5 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05318
    Btg—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior and weak red (2.5YR 5/2) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint weak red (2.5YR 5/2) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) and 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 5 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05319. continuous - phpvsfiid 534667; continuous - phpvsfiid 534667
    Bgx1—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior and reddish gray (10R 6/1) broken face silt loam; moderate medium blocky, and moderate very coarse prismatic structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; faint reddish gray (10R 6/1) clay films and prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent coarse distinct pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) and 11 percent coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8); 1 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05320. continuous - phpvsfiid 534668; continuous - phpvsfiid 534668
    2Bgx2—86 to 147 centimeters (33.9 to 57.9 inches); dusky red (10R 3/3) interior and reddish gray (10R 6/1) broken face gravelly silt loam; moderate very coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse platy structure; very firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; faint clay films on all faces of peds and prominent clay films on surfaces along root channels and 38 percent reddish gray (10R 6/1) coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05321
    2Bx—147 to 203 centimeters (57.9 to 79.9 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior gravelly silt loam; structureless massive; very firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05322