IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kaymine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA027089
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA027089
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 225
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA027089
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44127
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 41.0900000
  • Std. Longitude: -77.8983333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 148 DEGREES SE SAMPLE SITE LOCATED AT STARTING POINT #1
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. White, J. Chibirka, W. Farwell, M. Hogue, J. Hudak
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fragmental, mixed Typic Udorthents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 89
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kaymine
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/15/1988 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ACRU

    BEPA

    PIST

    Acer rubrum

    Betula papyrifera

    Pinus strobus

    red maple

    paper birch

    eastern white pine

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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

    60

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    481

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    135

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    C1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely channery silt loam; 10 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots around fragments; 5.0 coarse high-continuity void between rock fragments pores; 14 percent faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) skeletans on rock fragments; 60 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06899; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 532445; patchy - phpvsfiid 532445
    C2—10 to 40 centimeters (3.9 to 15.7 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely channery silt loam; 10 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots around fragments; 5.0 coarse high-continuity void between rock fragments pores; 14 percent faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) skeletans on rock fragments; 85 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06900; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 532446; patchy - phpvsfiid 532446
    C3—40 to 70 centimeters (15.7 to 27.6 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely channery silt loam; 10 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 coarse high-continuity void between rock fragments pores; 14 percent faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) skeletans on rock fragments; 85 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06901; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 532447; patchy - phpvsfiid 532447
    C4—70 to 100 centimeters (27.6 to 39.4 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely channery silt loam; 10 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 5.0 coarse high-continuity void between rock fragments pores; 14 percent faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) skeletans on rock fragments; 85 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06902; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 532448; patchy - phpvsfiid 532448
    C5—100 to 160 centimeters (39.4 to 63.0 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) and very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) extremely channery silt loam; 10 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 5.0 coarse high-continuity void between rock fragments pores; 14 percent faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) skeletans on rock fragments; 85 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06903; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 532449; patchy - phpvsfiid 532449
    C6—160 to 220 centimeters (63.0 to 86.6 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) and brown (7.5YR 5/4) extremely channery silt loam; 10 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 5.0 coarse high-continuity void between rock fragments pores; 14 percent faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) skeletans on rock fragments; 85 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green. Lab sample # PSU06904; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 532450; patchy - phpvsfiid 532450