IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rayne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 733
  • User Pedon ID: 1971PA111002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 733
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 71PA111002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45241
  • 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: 40.0241667
  • Std. Longitude: -79.1100000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 mi NW of Somerset, 65 ft NNW of T559 and 0.6 mi W of T452.
  • 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: G. Latshaw, S. Eckart, R. Matelski, R. Cunningham, E. Reber
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rayne
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rayne
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.22 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.44 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.67 in/hr of percolation rate and 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 7.11 in/hr of percolation rate and 10 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/18/1971 ()
  • 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

    DAGL

    MESA

    Dactylis glomerata

    Medicago sativa

    orchardgrass

    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

    10

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    657

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    135

    1150

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    8.9

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05559
    Bt1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior channery silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 14 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume angular ? 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; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05560. patchy - phpvsfiid 534940; patchy - phpvsfiid 534940
    Bt2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior channery silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume angular ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05561. continuous - phpvsfiid 534941; continuous - phpvsfiid 534941
    Bt3—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior channery clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume angular ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05562. continuous - phpvsfiid 534942; continuous - phpvsfiid 534942
    Bt4—97 to 130 centimeters (38.2 to 51.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior channery silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume angular ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05563. patchy - phpvsfiid 534943; patchy - phpvsfiid 534943
    BC—130 to 168 centimeters (51.2 to 66.1 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very channery clay loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; clay films on rock fragments and 70 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume angular ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05564
    C1—168 to 208 centimeters (66.1 to 81.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very channery loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films on rock fragments and 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume angular ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05565
    C2—208 to 305 centimeters (81.9 to 120.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very channery sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; clay films on rock fragments and 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume angular ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05566
    R—305 to 325 centimeters (120.1 to 128.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior; 5 percent by volume angular ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 70 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05567