IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Meckesville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013PA099004
  • User Pedon ID: S2013PA099004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2013PA099004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0289
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79420
  • 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: 40.2410600
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6298500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: MdD—Meckesville very stony silt loam, 8 to 25 percent slopes
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA099—Perry
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joseph Kraft
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mesic Fragic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Meckesville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - shrub
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: red sandy and silty colluvium derived from sandstone
  • Landform: structural bench on mountain valley
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified
  • Geology: Juniata Sandstone formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated sandstone, unspecified, 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/26/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Joseph Kraft
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - 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

    ACRU

    NYSY

    QURU

    SAAL5

    HAMAM

    KALA

    Acer rubrum

    Nyssa sylvatica

    Quercus rubra

    Sassafras albidum

    Hamamelis

    Kalmia latifolia

    red maple

    blackgum

    northern red oak

    sassafras

    witchhazel

    mountain laurel

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    overstory

    overstory

    overstory

    overstory

    understory

    understory
    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

    8

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    615.7

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    300

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    Oei—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face stones; friable; many fine roots around fragments; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 150-285-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear irregular boundary.; observed in trench
    A/E—19 to 36 centimeters (7.5 to 14.2 inches); 50 percent dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) broken face and 50 percent reddish gray (5YR 5/2) broken face fine sandy loam, stones; very friable; many fine roots around fragments; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 150-285-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01473; observed in trench
    B/E—36 to 65 centimeters (14.2 to 25.6 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face very flaggy silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many fine roots throughout and common coarse roots around fragments; few medium tubular pores; 10 percent organic stains between sand grains; ; ; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 150-285-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01474; observed in trench
    Bt1—65 to 99 centimeters (25.6 to 39.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) broken face very channery silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; common fine vesicular pores; 2 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 150-285-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01475; observed in trench
    Bt2—99 to 174 centimeters (39.0 to 68.5 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) broken face gravelly clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; few coarse vesicular pores; 15 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 5/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 10 percent fine reddish black (2.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese coatings and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01476; observed in trench
    BC—174 to 200 centimeters (68.5 to 78.7 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) broken face gravelly clay loam; 24 percent clay; weak thick platy, and massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common medium roots throughout; few medium tubular pores; 15 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 2 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 5 percent fine manganese coatings; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method.; observed in trench