IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Philo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001PA031030
  • User Pedon ID: S01PA031030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0239
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14470
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 41.3496933
  • Std. Longitude: -79.2952499
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: PeA—Philo loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA031—Clarion
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA031—Clarion County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alex Dado
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Philo
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/2008
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Philo
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/28/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    cambic horizon

    18—96

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    Setting and Climate
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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; 12 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 fine roots between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.0 medium roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N01071; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sandy loam; 18 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 fine roots between peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—64 to 97 centimeters (25.2 to 38.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent fine prominent platy weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese concretions between peds and 20 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions and 30 percent coarse distinct irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 75-150-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2C—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) extremely gravelly loamy sand; 5 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 70 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green.; moist when described; observed in pit, small