IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hagerstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1983PA027069
  • User Pedon ID: 1983PA027069
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 83PA027069
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 83PA027069
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44109
  • 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: 40.8658333
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7733333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2310 m W of Jct Rt 144 & Rt 64, 1730 m NNE of Rockview Prison, 90 m SE of prop. line, R.D. 5, Bellefonte PA
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-G7—State College, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard Cronce and Carson Murdy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 69
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/1983 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree 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

    ACER

    QUERC

    Acer

    Quercus

    maple

    oak

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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

    5

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    318

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    135

    1000

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    9.5

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; strong fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01550. 10% 1-3 cm chert fragments.
    E—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01551. 10% 1-3 cm chert fragments.
    BE—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds and 38 percent faint light brown (7.5YR 6/4) skeletans on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01552. patchy - phpvsfiid 532333; patchy - phpvsfiid 532333
    Bt1—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior silty clay; strong very fine angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01553. continuous - phpvsfiid 532335; continuous - phpvsfiid 532335
    Bt2—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent faint black (N 2/0) oxide coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01554. continuous - phpvsfiid 532336; continuous - phpvsfiid 532336
    3Bt3—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01555. patchy - phpvsfiid 532338; patchy - phpvsfiid 532338
    3BC—84 to 99 centimeters (33.1 to 39.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior very cobbly silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 40 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01556. 20% each of yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 40% 2-10 cm subrounded carbonate cobbles and channers.
    3C—99 to 147 centimeters (39.0 to 57.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on rock fragments; 30 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01557. 60-80% 10 to 50 cm angular carbonate channers and flags.; patchy - phpvsfiid 532339; patchy - phpvsfiid 532339
    R—147 to 160 centimeters (57.9 to 63.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior; faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # PSU01558. Thin bedded dolomite.; patchy - phpvsfiid 532340; patchy - phpvsfiid 532340