IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bethesda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 128
  • User Pedon ID: 1974PA019042
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 128
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 74PA019042
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43469
  • 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: 40.9344444
  • Std. Longitude: -80.0902778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3 mi E of the city of Portersville in Muddy Creek Township 1/2 mi Ne of the jct of US 422 and LR10050.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA019—Butler
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40080-H1—Prospect, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Carlisle, R. Smith and G. Latshaw
  • 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 #: 42
  • 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 - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: 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

    DACA6

    LOUNU

    PICEA

    PISY

    POTR5

    SOLID

    Daucus carota

    Lotus unifoliolatus var. unifoliolatus

    Picea

    Pinus sylvestris

    Populus tremuloides

    Solidago

    Queen Anne's lace

    American bird's-foot trefoil

    spruce

    Scots pine

    quaking aspen

    goldenrod

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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

    7

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    378

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    180

    1000

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    9.2

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00964
    AC—10 to 41 centimeters (3.9 to 16.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 11 percent fine faint very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 11 percent fine faint brown (10YR 4/3); 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00965
    C1—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 11 percent fine faint brown (10YR 4/3) and 11 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 11 percent fine faint dark gray (10YR 4/1); 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 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00966
    C2—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 11 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 5 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00967
    C3—79 to 112 centimeters (31.1 to 44.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior loam; structureless massive; friable, moderately sticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00968
    C4—112 to 145 centimeters (44.1 to 57.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00969
    C5—145 to 170 centimeters (57.1 to 66.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00970