IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brinkerton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 414
  • User Pedon ID: 1959PA063003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 414
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 59PA063003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44337
  • 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: 40.7677778
  • Std. Longitude: -79.0725000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Loughry farm, in pasture; 1 mi W of Marion Center, East Mahoning Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA063—Indiana
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-G1—Marion Center, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive Typic Fragiaqualfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brinkerton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brinkerton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/29/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/29/1959 ()
  • 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

    CAREX

    HIERA

    PHLEU

    POCO

    POPR

    TRRE3

    Carex

    Hieracium

    Phleum

    Poa compressa

    Poa pratensis

    Trifolium repens

    sedge

    hawkweed

    timothy

    Canada bluegrass

    Kentucky bluegrass

    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

    4

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    399

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    270

    1150

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    9.3

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine platy structure; friable; 5.0 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03150. Structure is mixed; contains a few peds of unaltered subsoil in the 2 to 8 inch depth; a few brown concretions.
    Btg1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine and medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 11 percent fine distinct gray (N 6/0); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03151. Common fine distinct (N 6/0) streaks.; continuous - phpvsfiid 533321; continuous - phpvsfiid 533321
    Btg2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 60 percent fine and medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 60 percent fine distinct gray (N 6/0); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03152. Many fine and medium distinct gray (N 6/0) mottles and streaks; thick silt and clay coatings on all ped surfaces; a few small brown concretions.
    Btgx1—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silty clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; brittle; 0.5 roots; clay films on all faces of peds and 14 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) coats and 38 percent gray (10YR 6/1) coats; 60 percent fine and medium prominent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) and 60 percent fine distinct gray (N 6/0); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03153. A few black coatings; some reddish brown concretions.; continuous - phpvsfiid 533322; continuous - phpvsfiid 533322
    Btgx2—74 to 86 centimeters (29.1 to 33.9 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) interior silt loam; weak medium blocky, and weak very coarse prismatic, and platy structure; firm, moderately plastic; brittle; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 60 percent fine and medium faint gray (10YR 6/1) and 60 percent fine and medium prominent 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03154. Many fine and medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/8) mottles and streaks; a few small very dark gray shale fragments and many brown and reddish brown concretions up to 4 mm in diameter.
    Bgx—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) interior silty clay loam; weak blocky, and weak very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium platy structure; firm, moderately plastic; brittle; 11 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 11 percent fine faint black (N 2/0); fragments. Lab sample # PSU03155. Common fine faint light gray (N 6/0) mottles and streaks; many reddishy brown concretions. Similar material continues to greater depth with prismatic structure becoming less distinct.