IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ernest
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013PA099005
  • User Pedon ID: S2013PA099005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2013PA099005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0290
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79421
  • 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: 40.2580100
  • Std. Longitude: -77.5722900
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: EtC—Ernest silt loam, 8 to 15 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 Aquic 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 - Ernest
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Fragiudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/2013
  • 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: colluvium derived from sandstone and shale over residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landform: structural bench on mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone and shale
  • Geology: Lower Clinton formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 0.10 percent nonflat subangular indurated sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/2013 (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

    ACPE

    ACRU

    FAGUS

    LITU

    QURU

    Acer pensylvanicum

    Acer rubrum

    Fagus

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus rubra

    striped maple

    red maple

    beech

    tuliptree

    northern red oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    bedrock, paralithic

    noncoherent

    very strongly coherent

    127 - 165

    165 -

    - 38 -

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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

    10

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    368.8

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    155

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    Oei—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face; nonsticky, nonplastic; common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Ap—7 to 20 centimeters (2.8 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many medium roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; many fine vesicular and many fine tubular and few coarse tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-45-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N01479; moist when described; observed in trench
    BE—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face gravelly silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; common medium tubular and few medium vesicular pores; 10 percent greenish black (10Y 2.5/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-45-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-45-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N01480; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt1—30 to 80 centimeters (11.8 to 31.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face gravelly silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; few fine tubular pores; 5 percent medium noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-45-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01481; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt2—80 to 127 centimeters (31.5 to 50.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; common fine vesicular and common fine tubular pores; 10 percent medium noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron in matrix and 20 percent coarse noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-45-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-45-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01482; moist when described; observed in trench
    2Btx—127 to 165 centimeters (50.0 to 65.0 inches); 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate thick platy structure; firm; few medium roots between peds; common fine tubular and few fine vesicular pores; 10 percent fine noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 15 percent medium noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron in matrix; 4 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-45-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    2R—165 to 200 centimeters (65.0 to 78.7 inches); few fine roots in cracks; fragments.; observed in trench