IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Guernsey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 851
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA129013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 851
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA129013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45372
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 40.2319444
  • Std. Longitude: -79.4955556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 180 ft E of the dam, Mount Pleasant Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA129—Westmoreland
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-B4—Mammoth, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, D. Taylor
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Guernsey
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Guernsey
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.86 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.06 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.14 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.18 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.24 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.88 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

    2GP

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    Grass, perennial

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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

    8

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    299

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    270

    1100

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    —

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    9.9

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    Ap—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior silt loam; weak medium platy, and moderate medium granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06388
    Bt1—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and weak fine and medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06389. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535409; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535409
    Bt2—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) exterior silty clay; weak medium and coarse blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06390. continuous - phpvsfiid 535410; continuous - phpvsfiid 535410
    Btg—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate coarse blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; 11 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 11 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 5/1); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06391. Dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) ped surfaces.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535411; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535411
    BCg—89 to 107 centimeters (35.0 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and strong coarse structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; 11 percent coarse distinct gray (10YR 6/1); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06392. Streaks of dark brown (10YR 4/3) and dark gray (10YR 4/1).; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535412; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535412
    Cg—107 to 185 centimeters (42.1 to 72.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; weak fine platy, and structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06393. Bands of dark gray (N 3/0) and olive (5Y 5/3).; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535413; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535413