IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wharton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 423
  • User Pedon ID: 1961PA063057
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 423
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 61PA063057
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44347
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 40.8541667
  • Std. Longitude: -79.0172222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Wingert farm, 270 ft E of T660, 0.4 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, mixed, active Oxyaquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 57
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wharton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wharton
  • Classificaton Date - 9/8/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 1.24 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.5 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/8/1961 ()
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2GP

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    Grass, perennial

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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

    5

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    472

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    315

    1100

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    9

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03198
    Bt1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03199. continuous - phpvsfiid 533345; continuous - phpvsfiid 533345
    Bt2—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03200. Some tongues of B22 are 8 inches.
    BCg—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 60 percent medium distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2) and 60 percent medium distinct brown (10YR 5/3); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03201. "Thick clay deposits filling cracks, voids and on ped faces."
    Cg—94 to 127 centimeters (37.0 to 50.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silty clay loam; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 60 percent fine distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2) and 60 percent fine distinct dark olive gray (5Y 3/2); 80 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03202. "Some very coarse prisms with structureless interiors, somewhat platy; 80% weathered shale fragments mostly less than 1/4 inch."