IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Upshur
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 845
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA129007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 845
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA129007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45365
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 40.5058333
  • Std. Longitude: -79.6533333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 500 ft W of T638, 1 mi N of PA. 366, 1.5 mi E of Camp Jo-Ann.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA129—Westmoreland
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-E6—New Kensington East, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, P. Craul
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Upshur
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Upshur
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.14 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: 6/11/1962 ()
  • 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    weakly coherent

    moderately coherent

    147 - 178

    178 - 193

    - 31 -

    - 15 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic materials

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—97

    147—178

    178—193

    —20—

    —77—

    —31—

    —15—
    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

    3

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    366

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    270

    1050

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    —

    —

    —

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    9.7

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06352
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior silty clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; prominent clay films; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06353
    Bt2—33 to 64 centimeters (13.0 to 25.2 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; prominent clay films; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06354
    Bt3—64 to 97 centimeters (25.2 to 38.2 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; prominent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06355. Common coarse distinct pale olive (5Y 6/4) and light gray (5Y 7/2) streaks and blotches.
    C—97 to 147 centimeters (38.2 to 57.9 inches); dusky red (10R 3/2) interior silty clay loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06356. Streaks and blotches of pale olive (5Y 6/4) and light gray (5Y 7/2). "Gritty silty clay loam."
    Cr—147 to 178 centimeters (57.9 to 70.1 inches); reddish gray (10R 5/1) interior bedrock; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; faint clay films; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06357. Grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) streaks and blotches. 10% fragments. Diffuse irregular boundary to slightly weathered red and gray calcareous shale bedrock below 70 inches.
    R—178 to 193 centimeters (70.1 to 76.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # PSU06358