IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 422
  • User Pedon ID: 1961PA063056
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 61PA063056
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44346
  • 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: 40.8530556
  • Std. Longitude: -79.0166667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Wingart farm, 500 ft E of T660, 0.5 mi SE of Marchland, North 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: J. Noll, J. Weaver, R. Matelski, C. Engle, R. Shipp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 56
  • 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: 1.46 in/hr of percolation rate and 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.57 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.61 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.66 in/hr of percolation rate and 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.18 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: very 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

    2

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    485

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    0

    1100

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    9

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 20 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03194. 20-30% siltstone fragments.
    BA—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 25 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03195
    Bt—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds and faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 30 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03196. 20-25% fragments.
    C—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior extremely channery silt loam; 14 percent clay films on rock fragments and 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03197. About 90% partially weathered siltstone; may gray and black coatings on siltstone faces.