IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 431
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA065006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 431
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA065006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44356
  • 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: 41.0011111
  • Std. Longitude: -79.0219444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: London farm 300 ft E of house, 150 ft SE of Rt 384, 0.5 mi NE of Oliveburg, Oliver Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA065—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41079-A1—Coolspring, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Matelski, J. Zarachansky, J. Steptus, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 6
  • 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

    MESA

    PHLEU

    Medicago sativa

    Phleum

    alfalfa

    timothy

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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

    18

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    488

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    270

    1050

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    8.7

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03247
    BA—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; faint clay films; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03248
    Bt—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channery silty clay loam; weak subangular blocky structure; friable; faint clay films; 30 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03249
    BC—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channery silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and platy structure; friable; clay films and 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 45 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03250. A few fine black coatings.; continuous - phpvsfiid 533368; continuous - phpvsfiid 533368
    C—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery loam; friable; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) coats on rock fragments and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) coats on rock fragments; 75 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03251. Lenses of soil have fine subangular blocky structure.