IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pope
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA009014
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA009014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 57
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA009014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44509
  • 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: 39.7961111
  • Std. Longitude: -78.4036111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT 130 DEGREES
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Knight, B. Custer, N. Ellenberger, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, acid Fluventic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pope
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/22/1988 ()
  • 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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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    18—69

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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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    286

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 4.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06802; moist when described;
    Bw1—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 4.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent by volume subrounded ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06803; moist when described;
    Bw2—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior very gravelly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 35 percent by volume rounded ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06804; moist when described;
    C—69 to 140 centimeters (27.2 to 55.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior extremely gravelly loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; rapid permeability; 0.1 fine to coarse roots throughout; 38 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1) manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments; 60 percent medium and coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 60 percent medium and coarse prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2); 70 percent by volume subangular ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU06805; wet when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531472; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531472
    R—140 to 150 centimeters (55.1 to 59.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU06806