IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clymer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 424
  • User Pedon ID: 1961PA063058
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 61PA063058
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44348
  • Print Date: 5/2/2024

    • 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: 40.8680556
  • Std. Longitude: -78.9763889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Caston farm; 180 ft N of Rt 32107 and 30 ft W of woodland, 0.5 mi NW of Locust Lane, Canoe Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA063—Indiana
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40078-G8—Rochester Mills, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, J. Weaver, R. Matelski, C. Engle, R. Shipp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 58
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clymer
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clymer
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 1.44 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.76 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.04 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.32 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.28 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.72 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: 9/12/1961 ()
  • 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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    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 channery loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03203
    BA—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior channery silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03204. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533346; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533346
    Bt1—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) interior channery silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03205. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533347; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533347
    Bt2—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very channery silty clay loam; platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; clay films on rock fragments; 90 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03206
    C—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) interior and gray (N 6/0) interior extremely channery loam; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03207. "Slightly weathered, thinly bedded (0.5-1 inch chiefly) graywacke; platiness due to bedding planes."