IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frankstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969PA009003
  • User Pedon ID: 1969PA009003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 47
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69PA009003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44398
  • 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: 40.1352778
  • Std. Longitude: -78.6008333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Dorlan Hay farm, Photo 4V-107 1.75 mi NE of Cessna, SE of intrstn Rds 05100 & 05052, 500 yd E of house, 70 W
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA009—Bedford
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA009—Bedford County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40078-B5—Alum Bank, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Grice, G. W. Petersen and J. J. Noll
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive Typic Paleudults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Frankstown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frankstown
  • Classificaton Date - 7/29/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.7 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.9 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.2 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.2 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.4 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.4 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.7 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/29/1969 ()
  • 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

    TRIFO

    Trifolium

    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

    6

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    480

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    90

    1050

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    9.5

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    Ap1—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; channery silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; 20 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00334. Coarse fragments are siltstone and chert.
    Ap2—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior channery silt loam; granular, and weak medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; 30 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00335
    E—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior channery silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 15 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00336
    Bt1—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior channery silt loam; blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 20 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00337
    Bt2—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior channery silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; clay films on surfaces along root channels; 25 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00338. patchy - phpvsfiid 531428; patchy - phpvsfiid 531428
    Bt3—94 to 127 centimeters (37.0 to 50.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; black (N 2/0) coats; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00339
    C1—127 to 155 centimeters (50.0 to 61.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior channery silt loam; weak very coarse platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 38 percent faint clay films on rock fragments; 80 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00340. Common black coatings along bedding planes. Structure inherited from bedding planes.; patchy - phpvsfiid 531430; patchy - phpvsfiid 531430
    C2—155 to 178 centimeters (61.0 to 70.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior channery silt loam; weak very coarse platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on rock fragments; 90 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00341. Structure inherited from bedding planes. Few black coatings along bedding planes.; patchy - phpvsfiid 531431; patchy - phpvsfiid 531431
    C3—178 to 206 centimeters (70.1 to 81.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior channery silt loam; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 90 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00342