IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elliber
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1970PA067012
  • User Pedon ID: 1970PA067012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 453
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 70PA067012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44380
  • 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: 40.6236111
  • Std. Longitude: -77.2463889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: S on PA 235 from McAllisterville, take Liberty Rd to Jct with Town Ridge Rd, 0.7 mi & 60 ft upslope from here
  • 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-E2—Millerstown, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Latshaw, G. Yoder, E. Sautter, S. Ekart
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elliber
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elliber
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.29 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.69 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.81 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.98 in/hr of percolation rate and 3 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.19 in/hr of percolation rate and 11.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 37.4 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/12/1970 ()
  • 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

    2FORB

    ZEMA

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    Zea mays

    Forb (herbaceous, not grass nor grasslike)

    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

    16

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    256

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    45

    1000

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    9.6

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 roots; 25 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03395
    Bw—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03396
    Bt1—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; 14 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03397. patchy - phpvsfiid 533497; patchy - phpvsfiid 533497
    Bt2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; clay films on rock fragments; 25 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03398. patchy - phpvsfiid 533498; patchy - phpvsfiid 533498
    Bt3—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels and 14 percent clay films on rock fragments; 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03399. patchy - phpvsfiid 533499; patchy - phpvsfiid 533500; patchy - phpvsfiid 533499; patchy - phpvsfiid 533500
    Bt4—99 to 127 centimeters (39.0 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels and 14 percent clay films on rock fragments; 40 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03400. patchy - phpvsfiid 533501; patchy - phpvsfiid 533502; patchy - phpvsfiid 533501; patchy - phpvsfiid 533502
    BCt—127 to 145 centimeters (50.0 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 1 percent medium distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3); 25 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03401
    2C—145 to 165 centimeters (57.1 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 1 percent medium distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3); 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03402. 80% chert and sandstone fragments.