IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weikert
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA099031
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA099031
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 659
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA099031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44608
  • 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: 40.6241667
  • Std. Longitude: -76.9744444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: MILLERSBURG, PA QUADRANGLE 6,000 FT W OF THE JUNCTION OF RT 11, 15 AND RT 10 4 9,209 FT NE OF BARNERS CHURCH ASPECT = 129 DEGREES SE
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA099—Perry
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA099—Perry County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-E8—Millersburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Anderson, T. Craul, M. Horkey, A. Wilkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid Lithic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 31
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Weikert
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very 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: 11/14/1988 ()
  • 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

    PIST

    QUAL

    QURU

    Pinus strobus

    Quercus alba

    Quercus rubra

    eastern white pine

    white oak

    northern red 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—21

    21—34

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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

    54

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    219

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    135

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior; nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; moderately rapid permeability; 1.8 fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.8 fine and medium high-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07279; moist when described;
    A—4 to 25 centimeters (1.6 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior channery silt loam; 8 percent clay; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 1.8 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07280; moist when described;
    Bw—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior channery silt loam; 8 percent clay; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.3 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 30 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07281; moist when described;
    C—38 to 45 centimeters (15.0 to 17.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior very channery silt loam; 8 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.1 very fine and fine roots around fragments; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity void between rock fragments pores; 14 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 5/8) silica coats on rock fragments; 55 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07282; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534556; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534556
    Cr—45 to 54 centimeters (17.7 to 21.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior silt loam; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine and medium high-continuity void between rock fragments pores; fragments. Lab sample # PSU07283; moist when described;