IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weikert
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA055067
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA055067
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 371
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA055067
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44289
  • 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: 40.2219444
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7033333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 260 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: N. Ellenberger, M. Cessna
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Lithic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 67
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Weikert
  • PSC - 0 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • 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: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: 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: 11/23/1988 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    DAGL

    Dactylis glomerata

    orchardgrass

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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—33

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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

    24

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    306

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior channery silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak very fine and fine granular structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 4.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 20 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07081; moist when described;
    Bw—12 to 33 centimeters (4.7 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine and medium crumb structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.8 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 40 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07082; moist when described;
    Cr—33 to 44 centimeters (13.0 to 17.3 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior extremely channery silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine to coarse low-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 70 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07083; moist when described;
    R—44 to 54 centimeters (17.3 to 21.3 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # PSU07084