IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Riverhead
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 112
  • User Pedon ID: 1969PA019004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 112
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69PA019004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43452
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 40.9700000
  • Std. Longitude: -80.1108333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3 1/2 mi NNE of Portersville, 5 mi NW of Prospect.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA019—Butler
  • MLRA: 139—Lake Erie Glaciated Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40080-H1—Prospect, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. G. Grice and E. J. Ciolkosz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Riverhead
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chenango
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 3 in/hr of percolation rate and 8.2 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 4 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 6 in/hr of percolation rate and 8 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/1969 ()
  • 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

    PHLEU

    TRIFO

    Phleum

    Trifolium

    timothy

    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

    5

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    369

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    315

    950

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    9.3

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00830
    Bw—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint pressure faces on surfaces along pores; 7 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00831. patchy - phpvsfiid 531815; patchy - phpvsfiid 531815
    BC—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 21 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00832. Some clay bridging sand grains on ped faces.
    C1—74 to 107 centimeters (29.1 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior gravelly loam; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00833
    C2—107 to 137 centimeters (42.1 to 53.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior very gravelly sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00834. Few thin coal fragments.
    C3—137 to 155 centimeters (53.9 to 61.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior very gravelly loamy sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU00835. Upper 2 or 3 inches is brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sandy loam. The lower inch is strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and balck iron cemented gravel.
    2C4—155 to 178 centimeters (61.0 to 70.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior sandy clay loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 60 percent coarse distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU00836; wet, satiated when described;
    3C5—178 to 190 centimeters (70.1 to 74.8 inches); dark greenish gray (5BG 4/1) interior clay; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 60 percent medium distinct brown (10YR 4/3); fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00837; wet, satiated when described;