IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frankstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969PA009004
  • User Pedon ID: 1969PA009004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 48
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69PA009004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44409
  • 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: 40.1402778
  • Std. Longitude: -78.6152778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Photo 5V-44 N from Rd 05065 on T-534 to end, then 2.1 mi in lane to top of ridge, W .1mi, 1000ft W of woodlot
  • 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 and G. W. Petersen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 4
  • 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: 0.1 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.1 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 0.8 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.8 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.7 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

    TRAE

    Triticum aestivum

    common wheat

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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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    421

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    180

    1050

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    9.7

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, light gray (10YR 7/1) interior, dry; channery silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00343
    BA—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; subangular blocky, and moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 20 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00344
    Bt1—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; subangular blocky, and moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 38 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels and 38 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 20 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00345
    Bt2—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00346. patchy - phpvsfiid 531434; patchy - phpvsfiid 531434
    Bt3—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; subangular blocky, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 38 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00347. patchy - phpvsfiid 531435; patchy - phpvsfiid 531435
    BC1—124 to 147 centimeters (48.8 to 57.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; weak coarse angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 tubular pores; 38 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels and 38 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 20 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00348
    BC2—147 to 178 centimeters (57.9 to 70.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; weak coarse angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 tubular pores; 38 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels and 38 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 30 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00349
    C—178 to 203 centimeters (70.1 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films on surfaces along root channels; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 70 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00350