IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weikert
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 439
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA065014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 439
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA065014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44364
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 41.0677778
  • Std. Longitude: -79.1100000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 7 mi S of Brookville, 1 mi S of Stanton on Rt 36, left 0.7 mi on lane, 350 ft N of lane; Oliver Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA065—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41079-A1—Coolspring, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Matelski, J. Zarachansky, J. Steptus, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Lithic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Weikert
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashby
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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

    HIERA

    RUAC3

    RUHA

    Danthonia spicata

    Hieracium

    Rumex acetosella

    Rubus hawaiensis

    poverty oatgrass

    hawkweed

    common sheep sorrel

    Hawai'i blackberry

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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

    33

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    488

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    90

    1050

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    8.7

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.0 roots; 50 percent by volume shale-siltstone fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03299
    Bw—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior extremely channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots; prominent clay films; 85 percent by volume shale-siltstone fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03300
    C—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior extremely channery loam; 0.5 roots; 95 percent by volume shale-siltstone fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03301. 95-98% fragments with partial clay coats.