IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rayne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 732
  • User Pedon ID: 1971PA111001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 732
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 71PA111001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45240
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.0486111
  • Std. Longitude: -79.0619444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3 mi NW of Somerset, 115 ft NW of T546 and 1050 ft SW of T524.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA111—Somerset
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-A1—Somerset, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Ekart and R. L. Cunningham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rayne
  • Classificaton Date - 4/21/2014
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rayne
  • Classificaton Date - 5/17/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.63 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.7 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.31 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.56 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/17/1971 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    MESA

    Medicago sativa

    alfalfa

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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

    11

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    680

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    180

    1150

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    8.8

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05550
    Bt1—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior channery silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent faint clay films; 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05551. patchy - phpvsfiid 534930; patchy - phpvsfiid 534930
    Bt2—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior channery silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05552
    Bt3—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very flaggy silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 70 percent prominent clay films on horizontal faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05553. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534932; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534932
    Bt4—94 to 117 centimeters (37.0 to 46.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very flaggy loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 70 percent prominent clay films on horizontal faces of peds and 70 percent prominent clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05554. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534933; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534934; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534933; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534934
    BC—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior flaggy loam; weak coarse platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 38 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments and 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05555
    C1—152 to 178 centimeters (59.8 to 70.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very flaggy loam; weak coarse platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; prominent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05556. continuous - phpvsfiid 534937; continuous - phpvsfiid 534937
    C2—178 to 208 centimeters (70.1 to 81.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very flaggy clay loam; weak coarse platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels and faint clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05557. continuous - phpvsfiid 534939; continuous - phpvsfiid 534938; continuous - phpvsfiid 534939; continuous - phpvsfiid 534938
    R—208 to 264 centimeters (81.9 to 103.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05558