IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ernest
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 438
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA065013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 438
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA065013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44363
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 41.1172222
  • Std. Longitude: -79.0405556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Seyphart farm, 15 ft S of 2nd telephone pole on Hunter's Chapel Rd from the Port Barnett-Knoxdale Rd, Knox Tp
  • 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: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ernest
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ernest
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/19/1958 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    HIERA

    PHLEU

    POTEN

    TRRE3

    Danthonia spicata

    Hieracium

    Phleum

    Potentilla

    Trifolium repens

    poverty oatgrass

    hawkweed

    timothy

    cinquefoil

    white 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

    7

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    497

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    270

    1050

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    8.7

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 1 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03292
    E—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak fine platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 1 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03293
    BE—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 1 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03294
    Bt—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; prominent clay films; 1 percent medium faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 1 percent medium faint pale brown (10YR 6/3); 1 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03295
    Btg—51 to 79 centimeters (20.1 to 31.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; 60 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 60 percent medium distinct 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) and 60 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2); 1 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03296; wet, satiated when described;. Roots to 28 inches.
    Bx1—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) interior silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; firm; brittle; 11 percent medium prominent gray (N 6/0) and 11 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8); 1 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03297; wet, satiated when described;. Partial grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay coats.
    Bx2—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior and gray (N 6/0) broken face silty clay loam; firm; brittle; 5 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03298; wet, satiated when described;. A few black coatings; prism faces gray (N 6/0); few coarse prisms.