IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vandergrift
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 36
  • User Pedon ID: 1968PA005009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 36
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 68PA005009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44276
  • Print Date: 4/18/2025

    • 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: 40.8433333
  • Std. Longitude: -79.2613889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Marshall farm, 450 ft S on farm lane, 30 ft W of elct. pole 9-4022, 2.5 mi SW of Dayton, Wayne Twp, Armstrong
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA005—Armstrong
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-G3—Rural Valley, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Carey, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vandergrift
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vandergrift
  • Classificaton Date - 7/2/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 2 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/2/1968 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    TRRE3

    Trifolium repens

    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

    1

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    439

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    180

    1050

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    9.1

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    Ap1—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00248
    Ap2—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00249. Occasional flat sandstone fragments.
    Bt1—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior clay; strong fine and medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; faint clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00250. continuous - phpvsfiid 531370; continuous - phpvsfiid 531370
    Bt2—53 to 86 centimeters (20.9 to 33.9 inches); red (10R 4/6) interior and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior clay; weak coarse blocky, and weak very fine blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 38 percent faint clay films; 1 percent fine prominent gray (10YR 6/1) and 1 percent fine prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00251
    Bt3—86 to 117 centimeters (33.9 to 46.1 inches); red (10R 4/6) interior and dusky red (10R 3/4) interior silty clay; weak coarse blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent light gray (10YR 7/1); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00252
    BCt—117 to 142 centimeters (46.1 to 55.9 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior silty clay; weak coarse blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films; 11 percent fine prominent light gray (5Y 7/1) and 11 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00253. continuous - phpvsfiid 531373; continuous - phpvsfiid 531373
    C1—142 to 160 centimeters (55.9 to 63.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior silty clay loam; weak fine platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels and 38 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 10 percent by volume shale, calcareous fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00254. Many black specs
    C2—160 to 168 centimeters (63.0 to 66.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior silty clay loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 11 percent fine prominent light gray (5Y 7/1); 30 percent by volume shale, calcareous fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00255. "Mottles are streaks and spots. Structure essentially massive, but tending to be weak fine platy."
    R—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU00256. Not described.