IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Basher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990PA057008
  • User Pedon ID: 90PA057008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0310
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63357
  • 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: 39.9641876
  • Std. Longitude: -78.0744247
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 200 feet SE of Siloam Ch.; 1 mile N of Andover, Pa.; along Licking Creek floodplain
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA057—Fulton
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: wrk
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Fluvaquentic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Basher
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Fluvaquentic Dystrochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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—23

    23—99

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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

    0

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    232

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine crumb structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bw1—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    Bw2—51 to 107 centimeters (20.1 to 42.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) silt loam; 11 percent pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. common medium distinct 5YR62 mottles
    BC—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) very channery silt loam; 11 percent gray (5YR 6/1) medium prominent and 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine and medium faint mottles; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 50 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P01907. common fine and medium faint 5YR58 mottles; common medium prominent 5YR61 mottles