IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rayne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 835
  • User Pedon ID: 1972PA125046
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 835
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 72PA125046
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45354
  • 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: 40.2538889
  • Std. Longitude: -80.4908333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Washington Co., PA; Independence Twp, 0.8 mi NE of Independence. 1000' N-NE of intersec. of PA-844.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA125—Washington
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40080-C4—Avella, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Grice and J. Weaver
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 46
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rayne
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Westmoreland
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/1972 ()
  • 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

    2GA

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    Grass, annual

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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

    3

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    378

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    180

    1000

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    —

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    9.7

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06311. Neutral. 1 percent coarse fragments.
    BA—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06312. Neutral. 1 percent coarse fragments.
    Bt1—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 38 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 2 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06313. Strongly acid. 1 percent corse fragments.
    Bt2—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 2 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06314. Strongly acid. 1 percent coarse fragments.
    Bt3—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 2 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06315. Medium acid. 5 percent coarse fragments.
    BC—94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior channery loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06316. Medium acid. 40 percent coarse fragments.
    2C1—109 to 155 centimeters (42.9 to 61.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior very channery loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 40 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06317. Coarse fragment interiors are light olive brown (2.5Y 5.4). Medium acid. 85 percent coarse fragments.
    2C2—155 to 180 centimeters (61.0 to 70.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior very channery loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 85 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06318. Coarse fragment interiors are light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4). 70 percent coarse fragments.
    2R—180 to 216 centimeters (70.9 to 85.0 inches); pale red (2.5YR 6/2) interior; 70 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # PSU06319. "Thin bedded, fractured, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) sandstone."