IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pope
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 33
  • User Pedon ID: 1968PA005006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 33
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 68PA005006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44243
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 40.6683333
  • Std. Longitude: -79.3255556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Kimmel farm, 100 ft N of stream, .75 mi SW of farm bldgs, 2 mi SE of Elderton, Plum Creek Twp, Armstrong Co.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA005—Armstrong
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-F3—Elderton, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Carey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive Dystric Fluventic Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pope
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pope
  • Classificaton Date - 7/4/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 3.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 7.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 7.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 7.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 60 in/hr of percolation rate and 90 in/hr of percolation rate and 210 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/4/1968 ()
  • 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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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

    2

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    299

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    180

    1050

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    9.6

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00224
    BA—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00225
    Bw1—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00226
    Bw2—74 to 102 centimeters (29.1 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 5.0 tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00227
    BC—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 5.0 tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00228
    C1—122 to 155 centimeters (48.0 to 61.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 1 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 1 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00229
    C2—155 to 183 centimeters (61.0 to 72.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior loamy sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 11 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00230
    C3—183 to 198 centimeters (72.0 to 78.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00231; wet, satiated when described;