IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ernest
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 417
  • User Pedon ID: 1961PA063051
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 61PA063051
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44340
  • 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: 40.7436111
  • Std. Longitude: -79.0880556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 400 ft NE of farm lane bridge over Pine Run, 1 mi NE of Kellysburg, Rayne Twp.; Thompson farm.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA063—Indiana
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-F1—Clymer, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, J. Weaver, R. Matelski, C. Engle, R. Shipp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 51
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ernest
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ernest
  • Classificaton Date - 9/6/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.3 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.3 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.42 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.46 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.28 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.32 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.46 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/6/1961 ()
  • 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
    • 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

    5

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    375

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    315

    1150

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    9.4

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03166
    Bt—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 1 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03167. Thick discontinuous silt and clay films.
    Bgx1—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior silty clay loam; strong medium prismatic, and medium and coarse blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; 0.5 roots; 11 percent fine and medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03168. Thick continuous silt and clay films.
    Bgx2—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior silty clay loam; weak medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; clay films; 60 percent medium and coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03169. patchy - phpvsfiid 533330; patchy - phpvsfiid 533330
    Bgx3—89 to 132 centimeters (35.0 to 52.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior silt loam; platy, and structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; 60 percent coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03170. Common black coatings and concretions.