IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Valois
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 304
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA039003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 304
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA039003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44215
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 41.5638889
  • Std. Longitude: -80.1597222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 200 ft N of T393, 500 ft W of 20112 between T530 and T393, 5 mi S of Meadville, Union Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA039—Crawford
  • MLRA: 139—Lake Erie Glaciated Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41080-E2—Geneva, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Grice, D. Rector, J. Noll, M. Yoworski, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Valois
  • Classificaton Date - 3/6/2013
  • Classifier - Alex Dado
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wooster
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 12.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 13.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 16 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/1965 ()
  • 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

    TRPR2

    Trifolium pratense

    red 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

    3

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    439

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    0

    1000

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    8.5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02282
    BA—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02283
    Bt1—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior gravelly silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; clay films on all faces of peds and clay films on surfaces along root channels; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02284. patchy - phpvsfiid 532793; patchy - phpvsfiid 532794; patchy - phpvsfiid 532793; patchy - phpvsfiid 532794
    Bt2—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior gravelly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; clay films on all faces of peds; 45 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02285. patchy - phpvsfiid 532795; patchy - phpvsfiid 532795
    Bt3—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior gravelly loam; weak fine and medium blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 45 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02286. patchy - phpvsfiid 532796; patchy - phpvsfiid 532797; patchy - phpvsfiid 532796; patchy - phpvsfiid 532797
    Bt4—104 to 145 centimeters (40.9 to 57.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 45 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02287. Yellowish red (5YR 5/6) patches.; patchy - phpvsfiid 532798; patchy - phpvsfiid 532799; patchy - phpvsfiid 532798; patchy - phpvsfiid 532799
    Bx—145 to 178 centimeters (57.1 to 70.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior gravelly loam; moderate medium platy, and weak fine blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 38 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 38 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02288. patchy - phpvsfiid 532800; patchy - phpvsfiid 532801; patchy - phpvsfiid 532800; patchy - phpvsfiid 532801