IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pope
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969PA009009
  • User Pedon ID: 1969PA009009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 53
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69PA009009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44465
  • 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: 40.0375000
  • Std. Longitude: -78.5541667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Photo 4V-204. From site to power pole No. 5027 is 250 ft, 315 deg, to pole 5024 is 25 deg. 26 ft N of oaktree
  • 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-A5—Bedford, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.B. Carey, J. Greenawalt and R.L. Cunningham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active Dystric Fluventic Eutrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pope
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pope
  • Classificaton Date - 7/30/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 1.6 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.1 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.1 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 6 in/hr of percolation rate and 6 in/hr of percolation rate and 23 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/30/1969 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    2GA

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    Grass, annual

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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

    1

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    335

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    45

    1000

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    —

    —

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    10

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    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 5.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00376
    Ap2—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00377
    Ap3—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00378
    2Bw1—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00379. Few silt films on peds.
    2Bw2—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium blocky, and weak very coarse prismatic structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00380. Few silt films on peds and in pores; coatings on peds are dark brown (7.5YR 4/4)
    3Bw3—76 to 94 centimeters (29.9 to 37.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak coarse blocky, and weak very coarse prismatic structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00381. Very thin silt coats in pores
    4BC—94 to 112 centimeters (37.0 to 44.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00382
    4C1—112 to 147 centimeters (44.1 to 57.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loamy fine sand; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00383
    4C2—147 to 160 centimeters (57.9 to 63.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loamy fine sand; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 11 percent medium distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and 11 percent medium distinct reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) and 11 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2); 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00384
    5C3—160 to 208 centimeters (63.0 to 81.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments; 5 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00385