IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 430
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA065005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 430
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA065005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44355
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 41.0625000
  • Std. Longitude: -79.1630556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Brocius farm, 400 ft W of LR33003 at the upper edge of the field, 1.6 mi S of Ohl, Beaver 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 5/9/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    AVENA

    MESA

    PHLEU

    TRPR2

    Avena

    Medicago sativa

    Phleum

    Trifolium pratense

    oat

    alfalfa

    timothy

    red clover

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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

    23

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    509

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    225

    1050

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    8.6

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior channery loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03243
    Bt—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt 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; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03244
    BC—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; prominent clay films on rock fragments; 60 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03245. continuous - phpvsfiid 533365; continuous - phpvsfiid 533365
    C—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) interior extremely channery silty clay loam; friable; 95 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03246. Yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) lenses of loam between weathered light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) siltstone and shale chips; clay films and dark coatings on shale fragments.