IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Culleoka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 23
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA003009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 23
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA003009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44132
  • 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: 40.3102778
  • Std. Longitude: -80.0419444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 500 ft NE of the dead end of Dellofield Rd. near Irishtown Rd.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA003—Allegheny
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40080-C1—Bridgeville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Grubb, R. Newbury
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Culleoka
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Westmoreland
  • Classificaton Date - 6/30/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 5 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/30/1965 ()
  • 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

    PRSE2

    ROPS

    RUHA

    TORA2

    Prunus serotina

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    Rubus hawaiensis

    Toxicodendron radicans

    black cherry

    black locust

    Hawai'i blackberry

    eastern poison ivy

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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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    372

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    315

    950

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    9.6

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    Oa—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00142
    Ap—3 to 23 centimeters (1.2 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00143
    E—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak fine platy structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00144
    Bt1—28 to 44 centimeters (11.0 to 17.3 inches); 10YR 5/ (10YR 5/), interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films on surfaces along root channels; 15 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00145. patchy - phpvsfiid 531296; patchy - phpvsfiid 531296
    Bt2—44 to 64 centimeters (17.3 to 25.2 inches); 10YR 5/ (10YR 5/), interior clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; clay films on surfaces along root channels; 35 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00146. patchy - phpvsfiid 531297; patchy - phpvsfiid 531297
    BC—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); 10YR 5/ (10YR 5/), interior loam; platy structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 80 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU00147. Structure controlled by coarse fragments.
    C—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; platy structure; very firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 95 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00148. Thin bedded sandstone structure.
    R—107 to 120 centimeters (42.1 to 47.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior; platy structure; extremely firm; fragments. Lab sample # PSU00149. Fine grained graywacke.