IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Upshur
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 846
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA129008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 846
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA129008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45366
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 40.5852778
  • Std. Longitude: -79.6291667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 170 ft N of field road and T995, 0.8 mi E of cemetary 1.5 mi NE of Markle.
  • 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, D. Taylor
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Upshur
  • PSC - 23 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/2013
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • 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 0.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.37 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.12 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: 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    23—56

    —23—

    —33—
    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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    381

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    90

    1050

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    9.6

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06359
    Bt1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) interior clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; prominent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06360
    Bt2—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) interior silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06361. Streaks and blotches of light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4).
    BCt—56 to 91 centimeters (22.0 to 35.8 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2) interior silty clay; structureless massive, and weak coarse subangular blocky; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06362. Many coarse streaks and blotches of light gray (5Y 7/2) and dark gray (5Y 4/1).
    C—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); 75 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior and 25 percent dark gray (5Y 4/1) interior channery silty clay loam; structureless massive, and moderate fine subangular blocky; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films; 20 percent by volume shale, calcareous fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06363. Streaks of reddish gray (5YR 5/2). 20% shale fragments below 48 inches. Above slightly weathered red and gray shale bedrock.