IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weikert
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1965PA003001
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA003001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 15
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA003001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43493
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.6663889
  • Std. Longitude: -80.0891667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 31 ft S of dirt road 1060 ftE of US 19, N of PA Turnpike.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA003—Allegheny
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40080-F1—Mars, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Grubb, L. Watkins, R. Newbury
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Lithic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Weikert
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Weikert
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.63 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.63 in/hr of percolation rate and 11.88 in/hr of percolation rate and 13.38 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/28/1965 ()
  • 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

    RUHA

    Danthonia spicata

    Rubus hawaiensis

    poverty oatgrass

    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

    17

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    341

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    315

    900

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    9.7

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00090
    Bw—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00091
    BC—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 85 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00092. Structure controlled by shale (platy).
    R—33 to 71 centimeters (13.0 to 28.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) interior; very firm; 98 percent by volume shale, acid fragments. Lab sample # PSU00093. Some black and strong brown surface coatings; silt coatings on shale; platy shale structure.