IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 853
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA129015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 853
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA129015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45374
  • 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: 40.1494444
  • Std. Longitude: -79.5000000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 300 ft E of field entrance, 0.1 mi N of T405 on T746, 1.7 mi E of Mt. Pleasant.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA129—Westmoreland
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-B5—Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, D. Taylor
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brooke
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/1962 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    2FORB

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    Forb (herbaceous, not grass nor grasslike)

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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

    6

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    366

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    0

    1100

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    9.7

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06400. 5% coarse limestone fragments.
    Bt—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay; strong medium blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; prominent clay films; 12 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06401. 12% limestone fragments larger than 8 inches in diameter.; continuous - phpvsfiid 535418; continuous - phpvsfiid 535418
    BC—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior flaggy silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; 25 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06402. Grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) streaks and blotches.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535419; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 535419
    C—71 to 109 centimeters (28.0 to 42.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior flaggy silty clay loam; structureless massive, and weak medium subangular blocky; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 35 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06403. "Light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2) streaks and coatings, also few black coatings and concretiosn. 35% limestone fragments larger than 10 inches in diameter."
    R—109 to 124 centimeters (42.9 to 48.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU06404