IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Edom
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1967PA061005
  • User Pedon ID: 1967PA061005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 393
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 67PA061005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44313
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 40.6561111
  • Std. Longitude: -77.9275000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 mi NE of Neffs Mills on LR 31067 right onto private road, 778 ft W of pole #48
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA061—Huntingdon
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA061—Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-F8—Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Matelski, T. Craft
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Edom
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Edom
  • Classificaton Date - 6/6/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.63 in/hr of percolation rate and 23.13 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/6/1967 ()
  • 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

    ACRU

    DASP2

    FRAXI

    PINUS

    ROPS

    TRPR2

    Acer rubrum

    Danthonia spicata

    Fraxinus

    Pinus

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    Trifolium pratense

    red maple

    poverty oatgrass

    ash

    pine

    black locust

    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

    18

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    274

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    135

    1000

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    9.8

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; strong medium and coarse granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02954
    Bt1—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02955. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533170; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533170
    Bt2—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds and prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02956. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533171; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533172; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533171; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533172
    BC—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02957. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533173; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533173
    C—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; prominent clay films; 95 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02958. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533174; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533174
    R—76 to 117 centimeters (29.9 to 46.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02959. Shale