IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Armagh
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 437
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA065012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 437
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA065012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44362
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 41.1272222
  • Std. Longitude: -79.0344444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Harriett farm, 115 ft SW of gas well, 90 ft N of woods, 2 mi S of Brookville on Port Barnett and Knoxville Rd
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA065—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41079-B1—Brookville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Matelski, J. Zarachansky, J. Steptus, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active Typic Endoaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Armagh
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Armagh
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/19/1958 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous 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

    DASP2

    ERIGE2

    POTEN

    SOLID

    Danthonia spicata

    Erigeron

    Potentilla

    Solidago

    poverty oatgrass

    fleabane

    cinquefoil

    goldenrod

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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

    1

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    480

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    180

    1050

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    8.7

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03285. Many roots to 3 inches.
    BA—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; faint pale brown (10YR 6/3) clay films; 60 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 60 percent fine prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03286. Clay coats are partial.
    Bt1—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 roots; distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) clay films; 60 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 60 percent fine prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03287
    Bt2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate very coarse prismatic, and weak fine and medium blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 roots; 11 percent fine prominent gray (10YR 5/1) and 11 percent fine prominent gray (10YR 6/1) and 11 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03288; wet, satiated when described;. Many black coatings and small concretions.
    BC—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; firm, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 11 percent coarse prominent gray (10YR 6/1) and 11 percent coarse prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/3); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03289; wet, satiated when described;. Thick coatings (2mm) on prism faces; some manganese coatings decreasing downward.
    BCg—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium platy structure; firm, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 11 percent medium prominent gray (N 5/0) and 11 percent medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1) and 11 percent medium prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03290; wet, satiated when described;. Coatings on prisms 2mm thick; some black coatings on plates.
    Bx—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak coarse platy structure; very firm, slightly plastic; brittle; 60 percent coarse prominent gray (N 6/0) and 60 percent coarse prominent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03291; wet, satiated when described;. Roots to 42 inches; partial clay coatings; some black coatings on plates.