IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bethesda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 127
  • User Pedon ID: 1974PA019041
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 127
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 74PA019041
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43468
  • Print Date: 1/28/2025

    • 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: 40.9841667
  • Std. Longitude: -80.1338889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 3/4 MI n of the junction of I79 and US 422 in an area bounded by township roads T318, T373 and T371.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA019—Butler
  • MLRA: 139—Lake Erie Glaciated Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40080-H2—Portersville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: I. Ratcliff, E. Ciolkosz and A. Bilzi
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, acid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 41
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bethesda
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Minesoil
  • Classificaton Date - 8/14/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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: 8/14/1974 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - culturally induced barren
  • 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

    LOUNU

    PHLEU

    POTR5

    Dactylis glomerata

    Lotus unifoliolatus var. unifoliolatus

    Phleum

    Populus tremuloides

    orchardgrass

    American bird's-foot trefoil

    timothy

    quaking aspen

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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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    396

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    45

    1000

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    9.2

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00958
    Bw1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior channery loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 60 percent fine distinct brown (10YR 5/3); 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00959
    Bw2—33 to 71 centimeters (13.0 to 28.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior very channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 60 percent coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 10 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00960
    C1—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior very channery loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 5 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00961
    C2—99 to 127 centimeters (39.0 to 50.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior very channery clay loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine distinct brown (10YR 5/3); 5 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00962
    C3—127 to 188 centimeters (50.0 to 74.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior very channery clay loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine distinct brown (10YR 5/3); 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00963