IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Upshur
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 126
  • User Pedon ID: 1973PA019040
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 126
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 73PA019040
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43467
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 40.6827778
  • Std. Longitude: -80.0780556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.3 mi E of Criders Corners, 3.5 mi WSW of MARs, 2 mi SE of Ogle, .5 mi S of Hendersonville, S on LR1005...
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA019—Butler
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40080-F1—Mars, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Ciolkosz, R. Smith and S. Ekart
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 40
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Upshur
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Upshur
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/1973 ()
  • 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

    PHLEU

    Phleum

    timothy

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    moderately coherent

    196 - 221

    - 25 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—86

    196—221

    —15—

    —71—

    —25—
    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

    17

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    360

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    270

    950

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    9.3

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00948
    Bt1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 66 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00949
    Bt2—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 69 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00950
    Bt3—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 63 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00951
    BCt—58 to 86 centimeters (22.8 to 33.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 53 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00952
    C1—86 to 117 centimeters (33.9 to 46.1 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior parachannery clay; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00953
    C2—117 to 142 centimeters (46.1 to 55.9 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior parachannery silty clay loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent by volume flat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00954
    C3—142 to 175 centimeters (55.9 to 68.9 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior extremely parachannery silty clay loam; structureless massive; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 60 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00955
    C4—175 to 196 centimeters (68.9 to 77.2 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior extremely parachannery silty clay loam; structureless massive; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 75 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00956. Common black (N 2/0) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) lenses. Massive in place, parting to blocky shale structure.
    R—196 to 221 centimeters (77.2 to 87.0 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # PSU00957