IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Culleoka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 22
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA003008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 22
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA003008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44121
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 40.3080556
  • Std. Longitude: -80.0619444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 320 ft SW of pole 898/2 first driveway on the right from McMurray and Clifton Library Roads.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA003—Allegheny
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40080-C1—Bridgeville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Grubb, R. Newbury
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Culleoka
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Westmoreland
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.42 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.08 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: 6/29/1965 ()
  • 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

    PRSE2

    ROPS

    Danthonia spicata

    Prunus serotina

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    poverty oatgrass

    black cherry

    black locust

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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

    6

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    378

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    180

    950

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    9.6

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00136
    BA—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films; 5 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00137. patchy - phpvsfiid 531293; patchy - phpvsfiid 531293
    Bt1—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); 10YR 5/ (10YR 5/), interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films; 10 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00138. continuous - phpvsfiid 531294; continuous - phpvsfiid 531294
    Bt2—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); 10YR 5/ (10YR 5/), interior channery clay loam; structureless single grain; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films; 40 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00139. patchy - phpvsfiid 531295; patchy - phpvsfiid 531295
    C—69 to 74 centimeters (27.2 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery clay loam; platy structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 85 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00140
    R—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and brown (10YR 5/3) interior bedrock; 99 percent by volume shale, acid fragments. Lab sample # PSU00141. Shale and sandstone.