IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wheeling
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1974PA081017
  • User Pedon ID: 1974PA081017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 530
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 74PA081017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44466
  • Print Date: 4/26/2024

    • 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: 41.1797222
  • Std. Longitude: -76.8386111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 mi N of Montgomery on Rt. E of 405, .5 mi E to Tebbs farm, 150 yds W of greenhouse at bldgs at S end.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA081—Lycoming
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA081—Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41076-B7—Muncy, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: I. W. Ratcliff, P. H. Parrish, R. L. Cunningham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wheeling
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wheeling
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 7.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 8.76 in/hr of percolation rate and 10.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 10.86 in/hr of percolation rate and 11.64 in/hr of percolation rate and 11.64 in/hr of percolation rate and 31.86 in/hr of percolation rate and 33.42 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/1974 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    2GA

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    Forb (herbaceous, not grass nor grasslike)

    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

    0

    —

    —

    152

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    0

    1000

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    —

    —

    —

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    9.8

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior silt loam; moderate coarse platy, and moderate fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04122
    BA—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine platy, and weak fine prismatic structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04123
    Bt1—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04124. patchy - phpvsfiid 533871; patchy - phpvsfiid 533871
    Bt2—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loam; weak fine prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04125. patchy - phpvsfiid 533872; patchy - phpvsfiid 533872
    Bt3—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films; 1 percent fine faint yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and 1 percent fine faint light reddish brown (5YR 6/3); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04126. patchy - phpvsfiid 533873; patchy - phpvsfiid 533873
    Bw1—102 to 117 centimeters (40.2 to 46.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine prismatic structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04127
    Bw2—117 to 150 centimeters (46.1 to 59.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04128
    2C1—150 to 173 centimeters (59.1 to 68.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior and pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior sand; structureless massive; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 60 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04129
    2C2—173 to 188 centimeters (68.1 to 74.0 inches); cobbly sand; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU04130. "75"" cobbles 3' to 10' in diameter."