IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mertz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1970PA067003
  • User Pedon ID: 1970PA067003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 445
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 70PA067003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44371
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 40.5894444
  • Std. Longitude: -77.3316667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3.4 mi E of Mifflintown on Rt 35, right on Twp Rd opposite James Adams farm, 1.5 mi from ctr of Rd at 161 deg
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA067—Juniata
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA605—Juniata and Mifflin Counties, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-E3—Mexico, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Petersen, S. Ekart, G. Yoder, G. Latshaw.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mertz
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frankstown
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.02 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.02 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.05 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.07 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.1 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.16 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.41 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.1 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1970 ()
  • 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

    BROMU

    PHLEU

    Bromus

    Phleum

    brome

    timothy

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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

    12

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    189

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    0

    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; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03338
    E—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium platy, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03339
    BE—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels and 14 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03340. continuous - phpvsfiid 533410; continuous - phpvsfiid 533410
    Bt1—36 to 69 centimeters (14.2 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 38 percent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds and 70 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03341. Fe-Mn coatings are alson on coarse fragments.
    Bt2—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds and faint clay films on surfaces along root channels and 38 percent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint brown (10YR 5/3) and 1 percent fine faint 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8); 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03342. Fe-Mn coatings are also on coarse fragments.; continuous - phpvsfiid 533414; continuous - phpvsfiid 533415; continuous - phpvsfiid 533414; continuous - phpvsfiid 533415
    Bt3—89 to 107 centimeters (35.0 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak coarse blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds and 14 percent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds and 14 percent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03343. continuous - phpvsfiid 533417; continuous - phpvsfiid 533417
    2Bt4—107 to 147 centimeters (42.1 to 57.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds and distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels and 14 percent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03344. continuous - phpvsfiid 533420; continuous - phpvsfiid 533421; continuous - phpvsfiid 533420; continuous - phpvsfiid 533421