IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dormont
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 849
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA129011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 849
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA129011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45369
  • 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: 40.3427778
  • Std. Longitude: -79.5069444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 800 ft W of T844 on the Heinnickel farm, 0.4 mi S of Hannastown.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA129—Westmoreland
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-C5—Greensburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, D. Taylor
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dormont
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Guernsey
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.37 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.88 in/hr of percolation rate and 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.75 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/12/1962 ()
  • 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

    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

    8

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    358

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    180

    1100

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    —

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    9.7

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06375
    AB—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06376
    Bt—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky; faint clay films and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) coats; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06377. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535400; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535400
    Bt1—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; 11 percent medium distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2) and 11 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06378. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535402; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535402
    Bt2—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior silty clay; moderate medium and coarse blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films and 38 percent black (10YR 2/1) clay films; 11 percent medium and coarse prominent light gray (5Y 7/2) and 11 percent medium and coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 10 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06379. 10% shale chips.; continuous - phpvsfiid 535404; continuous - phpvsfiid 535404
    C—107 to 119 centimeters (42.1 to 46.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior channery silty clay loam; weak coarse blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; 60 percent coarse prominent light gray (5Y 7/2) and 60 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); 10 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06380. "25% oriented fragments. Above slightly weathered interbedded shale, sandstone and limestone."; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535405; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535405