IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Atkins
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002PA031008
  • User Pedon ID: S2002PA031008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S02PA031008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0673
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15415
  • 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: 41.2733611
  • Std. Longitude: -79.4745000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Atkins silt loam, in an area of Philo-Atkins complex, in Elk Township, Clarion County; on State Game Lands 63, 1.5 miles northwest of Shippenville, approximately 200 feet southwest of the intersection of Soap Fat Road and T583.
  • Map Unit: Af—Atkins silt loam, 0 to 5 percent slopesAtA—Atkins-Philo complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA031—Clarion
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA031—Clarion County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41079-C4—Fryburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alex W. Dado
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, acid, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Atkins
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/18/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Atkins
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: recent alluvium derived from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: 1 plateau
  • Landform: 2 flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/25/2002 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    COSES

    EUSID

    FRAXI

    SYFO

    Cornus sericea ssp. sericea

    Eusideroxylon

    Fraxinus

    Symplocarpus foetidus

    redosier dogwood

    ironwood

    ash

    skunk cabbage

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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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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 25 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N02973; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; 20 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate coarse granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 roots; 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N02974; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg1—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 38 percent clay; moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 roots; 15 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 15 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02975; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg2—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) clay loam; 40 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 roots; 20 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, iron depletions throughout and 30 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02976; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BCg—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) loam; 45 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1.0 roots; 30 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02977; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 15 percent clay; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 roots; 15 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02978; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2C—124 to 165 centimeters (48.8 to 65.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) extremely gravelly sandy loam; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 roots; 5 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat well rounded ? to 150-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat well rounded ? to 45-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 03N02979; moist when described; observed in pit, small