IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weikert
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 429
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA065004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 429
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA065004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44353
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 41.1116667
  • Std. Longitude: -79.1255556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Diener farm, 80 ft N of Rt 33011, 0.9 mi W of Rt 36, SW of Brookville, Rose Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA065—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41079-A2—Summerville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Matelski, J. Zarachansky, J. Steptus, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Lithic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Weikert
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 5/9/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/9/1958 ()
  • 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

    DASP2

    Danthonia spicata

    poverty oatgrass

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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

    24

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    463

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    180

    1050

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    8.8

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03239. 20% shale chips.
    Bt—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 30 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03240. 30% shale chips.
    C1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior silty clay; prominent clay films; 85 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03241. Partially weathered shale coated with silty clay loam; partially weathered and stratified shale; easily broken shale chips; some clay lenses; 80-90% shale chips.; continuous - phpvsfiid 533363; continuous - phpvsfiid 533363
    C2—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay; faint clay films; 85 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03242. Partially weathered shale; silty clay; clay coats thin and discontinuous; dark coatings on shale fragments.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533364; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533364