IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Philo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 820
  • User Pedon ID: 67PA123013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 820
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 67PA123013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45338
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 41.8250000
  • Std. Longitude: -79.2722222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 mi S of US 6 on T422 and 460 ft E on Floodplain of Allegheny River.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA123—Warren
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41079-G3—Youngsville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Carey, R. Cunningham, J. Cerutti, D. Grice
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Philo
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/2013
  • Classifier - Alex Dado
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lobdell
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/13/1967 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ASCLE

    CIAR4

    ERIGE2

    RUCR

    RUFL

    SAMBU

    SOCA3

    SOLID

    Asclepias

    Cirsium arvense

    Erigeron

    Rumex crispus

    Rubus flagellaris

    Sambucus

    Solanum carolinense

    Solidago

    milkweed

    Canada thistle

    fleabane

    curly dock

    northern dewberry

    elderberry

    Carolina horsenettle

    goldenrod

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

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    20—152

    69—152

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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

    1

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    354

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    270

    1100

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    8.7

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06185
    Ap2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06186
    Bw1—20 to 53 centimeters (7.9 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06187; wet, satiated when described;
    Bw2—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06188; wet, satiated when described;. Grayish brown (10YR 5/2) mottles.
    Bwg1—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent fine black (N 2/0) and 60 percent fine distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2); fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06189; wet, satiated when described;. Dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and gray (N 5/0) mottles.
    Bwg2—94 to 127 centimeters (37.0 to 50.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent fine distinct gray (5Y 5/1) and 11 percent fine distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 60 percent medium dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4); fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06190; wet, satiated when described;. Gray (5Y 5/1) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) mottles.
    Bwg3—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior sandy loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent fine distinct gray (5Y 5/1) and 11 percent fine distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 60 percent medium dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06191; wet, satiated when described;. Gray (5Y 5/1) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) mottles.
    2C—152 to 165 centimeters (59.8 to 65.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior extremely gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06192; wet, satiated when described;