IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vandergrift
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 26
  • User Pedon ID: 1972PA003021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 72PA003021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44165
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 40.6086111
  • Std. Longitude: -79.9272222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1600 ft due N of the intersection of Middle and Cedar Ridge Roads on the VC Frey Property.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA003—Allegheny
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-E8—Glenshaw, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Sautter and R. Newbury
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vandergrift
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vandergrift
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/12/1972 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - crop shrubs
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    387

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    90

    950

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    9.5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00166
    Bt1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00167. continuous - phpvsfiid 531308; continuous - phpvsfiid 531308
    Bt2—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior clay; weak fine and medium angular blocky, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay films; 1 percent fine faint red (2.5YR 4/6); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00168. continuous - phpvsfiid 531309; continuous - phpvsfiid 531309
    Bt3—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior clay; weak fine and medium angular blocky, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay films; 11 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and 11 percent medium distinct light gray (5Y 7/1); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00169. continuous - phpvsfiid 531310; continuous - phpvsfiid 531310
    Bt4—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior clay; weak fine and medium angular blocky, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8); 20 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00170. continuous - phpvsfiid 531311; continuous - phpvsfiid 531311
    Btg1—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); light gray (5Y 7/1) interior clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films and distinct clay films; 60 percent medium prominent 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) and 60 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00171
    Btg2—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); light gray (5Y 7/1) interior clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films and distinct clay films; 60 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 60 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00172
    2C—109 to 145 centimeters (42.9 to 57.1 inches); olive (5Y 5/4) interior clay; weak fine platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00173. Some black films on shale fragments.
    2R—145 to 170 centimeters (57.1 to 66.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/4) interior; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00174. Hard thin bedded shale bedrock.