IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weikert
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA009016
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA009016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 59
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA009016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44531
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 39.8411111
  • Std. Longitude: -78.3902778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 107 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, M. Cessna, N. Ellenberger, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Lithic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Weikert
  • PSC - 0 to 27 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/22/1988 ()
  • 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

    ACRU

    CAOV2

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Carya ovata

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    shagbark hickory

    northern red oak

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—8

    8—27

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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

    42

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    389

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    90

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    A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior channery loam; 15 percent clay; weak very fine and fine crumb structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium low-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 30 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06816; moist when described;
    E—6 to 8 centimeters (2.4 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior channery loam; 15 percent clay; weak very fine and fine crumb structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium low-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 30 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06817; moist when described;
    Bw—8 to 27 centimeters (3.1 to 10.6 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior extremely channery silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium low-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 65 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06818; moist when described;
    Cr—27 to 54 centimeters (10.6 to 21.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior silt loam; 20 percent clay; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 1.8 very fine and fine roots in cracks; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06819; moist when described;
    R—54 to 64 centimeters (21.3 to 25.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # PSU06820