IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cavode
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 856
  • User Pedon ID: 1972PA129018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 856
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 72PA129018
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45377
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 40.1747222
  • Std. Longitude: -79.2694444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Southwestern Research Farm. Rector, PA.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA129—Westmoreland
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-B3—Stahlstown, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. C. Ekart and R. P. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Aeric Endoaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 18
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cavode
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cavode
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.05 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.05 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.19 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.04 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.05 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.05 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.05 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/1972 ()
  • 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

    5

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    —

    403

    —

    180

    1150

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    —

    —

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    9.5

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06421
    Bt1—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium blocky, and weak fine platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2); 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06422. patchy - phpvsfiid 535430; patchy - phpvsfiid 535430
    Bt2—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); light gray (5Y 7/1) interior silty clay loam; strong medium prismatic structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 38 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine prominent reddish yellow (5YR 6/6); 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06423
    Bt3—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); light gray (5Y 7/1) interior silty clay loam; very strong medium platy structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 38 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine prominent reddish yellow (5YR 6/6); 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06424
    C—66 to 74 centimeters (26.0 to 29.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate coarse platy structure; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06425
    R—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # PSU06426. Siltstone bedrock interbedded with sandstone and shale.