IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarksburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 848
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA129010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 848
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA129010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45368
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 40.3425000
  • Std. Longitude: -79.5047222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 100 ft W of road culvert, 0.5 mi S of Hannastown on T844.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA129—Westmoreland
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-C5—Greensburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, D. Taylor
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Fragiaquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarksburg
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarksburg
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.62 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.88 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.12 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/12/1962 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    ZEMA

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    Zea mays

    corn

    corn

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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

    4

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    344

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    180

    1100

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    9.7

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06370
    Bt1—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06371. Few black concretions and coatings.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535396; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535396
    Bt2—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; 11 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 11 percent medium distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06372. Common black concretions and coatings.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535397; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535397
    Bt3—76 to 104 centimeters (29.9 to 40.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and weak medium platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; 11 percent medium prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 11 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06373. Common black coatings.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535398; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535398
    Bx—104 to 160 centimeters (40.9 to 63.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay; weak medium platy, and weak coarse prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; prominent clay films; 60 percent medium and coarse prominent light gray (5Y 7/2) and 60 percent medium and coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06374. Common black coatings.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535399; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535399