IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 420
  • User Pedon ID: 1961PA063054
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 61PA063054
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44344
  • 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: 40.8955556
  • Std. Longitude: -79.0216667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Stuby farm, 280 ft SW of T904 and pole 8228, about 1 mi N of Cavode, North Mahoning Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA063—Indiana
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-H1—Valier, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, J. Weaver, R. Matelski, C. Engle, R. Shipp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 54
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 9/7/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 1.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.86 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.36 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.64 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/7/1961 ()
  • 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

    4

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    466

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    315

    1100

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 15 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03183
    BA—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03184
    Bt—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channery silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; prominent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03185. patchy - phpvsfiid 533335; patchy - phpvsfiid 533335
    BC—58 to 66 centimeters (22.8 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films and 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03186. 25-30% coarse fragments.; patchy - phpvsfiid 533336; patchy - phpvsfiid 533336
    C—66 to 76 centimeters (26.0 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior very channery silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 80 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03187. Silt and clay deposits are on fragments and in voids.
    R—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03188. Partly weathered thinly bedded siltstone.