IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarksburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 850
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA129012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 850
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA129012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45371
  • 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: 40.2305556
  • Std. Longitude: -79.4958333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 200 ft SW of barn Mt. Pleasant Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA129—Westmoreland
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-B4—Mammoth, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, D. Taylor
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Fragic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarksburg
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarksburg
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.06 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.19 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.75 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: high
  • 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

    2GP

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    Grass, perennial

    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

    10

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    293

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    90

    1100

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    9.9

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06381. Less than 2% sandstone fragments.
    Bt—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06382. Some brown (10YR 4/3) coatings. Less than 2% coarse fragments.
    Bgx1—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; 2 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06383. Some brown (10YR 4/3) coatings. Less than 2% coarse fragments.
    Bgx2—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and weak medium platy structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; faint clay films; 11 percent coarse prominent brown (10YR 4/3) and 11 percent coarse prominent gray (10YR 6/1) and 11 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06384. Common black coatings. Grayish brown (10YR 5/2) prism faces. 5% sandstone fragments.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535406; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535406
    Bgx3—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior silty clay; weak fine and medium platy, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; 38 percent clay films; 60 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 60 percent medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06385. Gray (10YR 6/1) prism faces. 10% sandstone fragments arranged in a stone line at bottom of horizon.; continuous - phpvsfiid 535407; continuous - phpvsfiid 535407
    Bgx4—97 to 135 centimeters (38.2 to 53.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine and medium platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; brittle; 14 percent prominent clay films; 1 percent coarse prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 60 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); 15 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06386. Many black coatings and concretions.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535408; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535408
    Cg—135 to 165 centimeters (53.1 to 65.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior clay loam; weak medium platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 1 percent medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1); 25 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06387. Many black coatings and concretions. 25% sandstone fragments.