IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fluvaquents
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA055065
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA055065
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 369
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA055065
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44286
  • Print Date: 5/8/2024

    • 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: 40.2277778
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6844444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 200 DEGREES
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA055—Franklin
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA055—Franklin County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Knight, M. Cessna, N. Ellenberger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, nonacid Typic Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 65
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fluvaquents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • 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: very low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: rare ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/1988 ()
  • 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

    ACSA3

    FRAM2

    PAVI2

    QUCO2

    ROMU

    SOLID

    ULAM

    Acer saccharum

    Fraxinus americana

    Panicum virgatum

    Quercus coccinea

    Rosa multiflora

    Solidago

    Ulmus americana

    sugar maple

    white ash

    switchgrass

    scarlet oak

    multiflora rose

    goldenrod

    American elm

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—12

    12—63

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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

    2

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    303

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    180

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) interior silt loam; 16 percent clay; moderate fine and medium crumb structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 3 percent by volume subrounded ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07069; moist when described;
    Bw1—12 to 33 centimeters (4.7 to 13.0 inches); reddish gray (5YR 5/2) interior silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 60 percent fine faint pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) and 60 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6); 3 percent by volume subrounded ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07070; moist when described;
    Bw2—33 to 63 centimeters (13.0 to 24.8 inches); pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) interior sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.1 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 11 percent fine faint pinkish gray (5YR 7/2) and 60 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 5 percent by volume subrounded ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07071; moist when described;
    C1—63 to 94 centimeters (24.8 to 37.0 inches); pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) interior very cobbly loamy sand; 12 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 0.1 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 11 percent fine prominent reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) and 60 percent fine and medium faint pinkish gray (5YR 7/2) and 60 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6); 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments and 25 percent by volume subangular ? to 163-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07072; moist when described;
    C2—94 to 146 centimeters (37.0 to 57.5 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior very cobbly loam; 18 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 0.1 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 11 percent fine and medium distinct reddish brown (5YR 5/3) and 60 percent medium and coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8); 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 163-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments and 25 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07073; moist when described;
    C3—146 to 170 centimeters (57.5 to 66.9 inches); gray (5YR 6/1) interior very cobbly loamy sand; 12 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 0.1 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 11 percent medium and coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments and 35 percent by volume subangular ? to 163-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # PSU07074; moist when described;