IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Calvin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA055066
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA055066
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 370
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA055066
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44288
  • 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: 40.2408333
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6883333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 160 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: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 66
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Calvin
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/7/1988 ()
  • 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

    ACSA3

    CATO6

    QUPR2

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Carya tomentosa

    Quercus prinus

    red maple

    sugar maple

    mockernut hickory

    chestnut 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—3

    3—32

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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

    46

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    568

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    180

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    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior; weak fine crumb structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07075; moist when described;
    A—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior and reddish gray (5YR 5/2) interior channery silt loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 2.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07076; moist when described;
    Bw—5 to 34 centimeters (2.0 to 13.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior very channery loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots in cracks; 2.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 35 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07077; moist when described;
    C—34 to 77 centimeters (13.4 to 30.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior extremely stony loam; 10 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 30 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume angular ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07078; moist when described;
    Cr—77 to 117 centimeters (30.3 to 46.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior extremely stony silt loam; 20 percent clay; nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.1 fine roots in cracks; 38 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 5/3) clay films on rock fragments; 30 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume angular ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU07079; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 533081; continuous - phpvsfiid 533081
    R—117 to 127 centimeters (46.1 to 50.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07080