IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Basher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990PA057006
  • User Pedon ID: 90PA057006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0308
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63355
  • Print Date: 5/17/2024

    • 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: 39.9183350
  • Std. Longitude: -78.2486115
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 meters N of Emmaville, PA
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA057—Fulton
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: wrk
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Fluventic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Basher
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed Fluventic Dystrochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—20

    20—97

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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

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01898
    BE—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01899
    Bw1—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) loam; 11 percent light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) fine and medium mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fine to coarse roots throughout; 15 percent prominent dark gray (5YR 4/1), moist, black stains in root channels and/or pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01900. few black stains surface features in root channels and/or pores; common fine and medium 5YR63 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 233963; patchy - phpvsfiid 233963
    Bw2—56 to 97 centimeters (22.0 to 38.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) loam; 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) coarse distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fine and medium roots; 15 percent prominent dark gray (5YR 4/1), moist, black stains in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01901. few black stains surface features in root channels and/or pores; common coarse distinct 5YR56 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 233964; patchy - phpvsfiid 233964
    C1—97 to 147 centimeters (38.2 to 57.9 inches); gray (5YR 5/1) and reddish brown (5YR 5/3) sandy loam; 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; weak massive, and single grain; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fine and medium roots; 15 percent prominent dark gray (5YR 4/1), moist, black stains on sand and gravel; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01902. few black stains surface features on sand and gravel; common medium prominent 5YR58 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 233965; patchy - phpvsfiid 233965
    C2—147 to 165 centimeters (57.9 to 65.0 inches); gray (5YR 5/1) and reddish brown (5YR 5/3) very cobbly loamy sand; 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; massive, and single grain; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fine and medium roots; 15 percent prominent dark gray (5YR 4/1), moist, black stains on sand and gravel; 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P01903. few black stains surface features on sand and gravel; common medium prominent 5YR58 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 233966; patchy - phpvsfiid 233966