IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ernest
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 249
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA033032
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 249
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA033032
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44153
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 41.1375000
  • Std. Longitude: -78.5802778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: MIKE HOGUE STARTING POINT #2 FINE-LIAMY MIKED-MESIC AQUIC FRAGIUDULT
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA033—Clearfield
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Custer, J. Chibirka, M. Hogue, M. Montgomery
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 32
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ernest
  • PSC - 19 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/20/1988 ()
  • 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

    ACSA3

    BETUL

    PRSE2

    Acer saccharum

    Betula

    Prunus serotina

    sugar maple

    birch

    black cherry

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    3—19

    19—60

    60—89

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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

    6

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    554

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    180

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    Oa—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; very rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots top of horizon; 5.0 very fine and fine high-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green. Lab sample # PSU06930; moist when described;
    E—3 to 19 centimeters (1.2 to 7.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded ? to 39-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06931; moist when described;
    Bt1—19 to 47 centimeters (7.5 to 18.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 14 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06932; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 532535; patchy - phpvsfiid 532535
    Bt2—47 to 60 centimeters (18.5 to 23.6 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior and pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; slow permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine roots between peds; 0.1 very fine and fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume angular ? to 39-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06933; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 532536; patchy - phpvsfiid 532536
    Bx—60 to 89 centimeters (23.6 to 35.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; slow permeability; 0.1 fine roots between peds; 0.1 low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 38 percent faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 11 percent fine and medium distinct gray (10YR 5/1); 8 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume angular ? to 39-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06934; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 532537; patchy - phpvsfiid 532537
    C—89 to 126 centimeters (35.0 to 49.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior extremely channery loam; 20 percent clay; structureless massive; very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.1 low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 60 percent coarse distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3); 30 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume angular ? to 39-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06935; moist when described;
    R—126 to 136 centimeters (49.6 to 53.5 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU06936