IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buchanan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA027090
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA027090
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 226
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA027090
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44128
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 41.0994444
  • Std. Longitude: -77.9061111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: FROM STARTING POINT #2, TRANSECTED 100 YDS. SW ASPECT = 68 DEGREES NE
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA027—Centre County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. White, J. Chibirka, B. Custer, W. Farwell, M. Hogue, J. Hudak
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 90
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Buchanan
  • PSC - 26 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: structural bench
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/15/1988 ()
  • 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

    QUPR2

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Quercus prinus

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    chestnut oak

    northern red oak

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

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    lithic contact

    5—14

    26—120

    56—120

    120—120

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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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    519

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    90

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    Oa—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior highly decomposed plant material; weak medium and coarse crumb structure; loose by humus, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.8 medium high-continuity filled with coarse material pores; 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06905; moist when described;
    E—5 to 14 centimeters (2.0 to 5.5 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior silt loam; 10 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 2.5 fine to coarse moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06906; moist when described;
    Bw—14 to 26 centimeters (5.5 to 10.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior silt loam; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 10 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06907; moist when described;
    Bt—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior channery silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1.8 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on surfaces along pores; 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06908; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532451; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 532451
    Btx1—56 to 85 centimeters (22.0 to 33.5 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior channery silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak thin platy structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; slow permeability; 0.3 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 0.1 fine low-continuity constricted tubular pores; 14 percent faint dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on surfaces along pores; 11 percent coarse distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) and 11 percent coarse prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8); 30 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06909; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 532452; patchy - phpvsfiid 532452
    Btx2—85 to 120 centimeters (33.5 to 47.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior very channery silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic, and weak thin platy, and weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; slow permeability; 0.1 fine roots in cracks; 0.1 fine low-continuity constricted tubular pores; 14 percent faint dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on surfaces along pores; 11 percent coarse distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) and 11 percent coarse distinct light gray (10YR 7/1); 45 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06910; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 532453; patchy - phpvsfiid 532453
    R—120 to 130 centimeters (47.2 to 51.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # PSU06911