IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Armagh
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 441
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA065016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 441
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA065016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44367
  • 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: 41.0452778
  • Std. Longitude: -78.8663889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Robinson farm; 300 ft S of Rt 33051 & 33075 Jct, 2 mi W of Sykesville, 2 mi S of Reynoldsville, Winslow Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA065—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41078-A7—Du Bois, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Matelski, J. Zarachansky, J. Steptus, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Typic Endoaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Armagh
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Armagh
  • Classificaton Date - 6/20/1958
  • 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: 6/20/1958 ()
  • 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

    ACHIL

    CAREX

    DASP2

    POTR5

    PRUNU

    SOLID

    Achillea

    Carex

    Danthonia spicata

    Populus tremuloides

    Prunus

    Solidago

    yarrow

    sedge

    poverty oatgrass

    quaking aspen

    plum

    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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    472

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    270

    1050

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    8.7

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03311
    Eg—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior silt loam; platy, and weak fine granular structure; friable; 60 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 60 percent fine distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03312. Some brown and black concretions.
    BAg—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 14 percent clay films; 60 percent medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1) and 60 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03313. A few black concretions.
    Btg1—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); gray (N 6/0) interior silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak fine blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 60 percent medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1) and 60 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03314; wet, satiated when described;. Partial prominent clay coats on the peds; a few black concretions.
    Btg2—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); gray (N 6/0) interior silty clay; weak very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; gray (N 6/0) coats and prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 60 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03315; wet, satiated when described;. Some black concretions.
    BCg—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); gray (N 6/0) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky, and weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm, moderately plastic; 60 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 60 percent coarse prominent brown (10YR 5/3) and 60 percent coarse prominent black (10YR 2/1); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03316; wet, satiated when described;. Many black concretions; clay coatings on prisms; some bedded shale.
    C—104 to 117 centimeters (40.9 to 46.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; very firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03317; wet, satiated when described;. Gray (10YR 6/1) coatings on prism faces; horizontally bedded shale with prisms extending to this horizon; coatings slightly sticy and plastic.