IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chavies
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 342
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA051003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 342
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA051003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44257
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 40.1083333
  • Std. Longitude: -79.6922222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In the burrow pit 100 ft from rd between Youghiogheny River and Whitsett, Perry Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA051—Fayette
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-A6—Dawson, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Carey, F. Kopas, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chavies
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sequatchie
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 1.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 3 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.5 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/6/1964 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    DACA6

    PHLEU

    TRPR2

    TRRE3

    Daucus carota

    Phleum

    Trifolium pratense

    Trifolium repens

    Queen Anne's lace

    timothy

    red clover

    white clover

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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

    0

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    244

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    1000

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    10.3

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine granular, and platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02686. Very dark brown (7.5YR 2/2) in first inch.
    BA—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; clay films between sand grains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02687
    Bt1—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02688. Thin clay bridging or sand grains.
    Bt2—58 to 86 centimeters (22.8 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior very fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02689
    Bt3—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior very fine sandy loam; fine blocky, and weak medium blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 38 percent faint manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02690. Thin partial clay films.
    Bt4—109 to 137 centimeters (42.9 to 53.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium and coarse blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 38 percent faint manganese or iron-manganese stains; 1 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02691. 1% cobbles.
    Bt5—137 to 147 centimeters (53.9 to 57.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films and 38 percent faint manganese or iron-manganese stains; 1 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02692. 1% cobbles.
    BC—147 to 178 centimeters (57.9 to 70.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films and 38 percent faint manganese or iron-manganese stains; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02693. 1% cobbles
    C—178 to 183 centimeters (70.1 to 72.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 60 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02694