IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 16
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA003002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 16
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA003002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43504
  • 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: 40.6327778
  • Std. Longitude: -80.0377778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Shenot farm 900 ft S from the NW corner of the farm, 0.5 mi N of Bayne Wexford Rd. intersection.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA003—Allegheny
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40080-F1—Mars, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Grubb, L. Watkins, R. Newbury
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.38 in/hr of percolation rate


    • 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: 6/28/1965 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    TRPR2

    Trifolium pratense

    red clover

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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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    369

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    180

    900

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    9.6

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00094
    Bt1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00095
    Bt2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films; 35 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00096. patchy - phpvsfiid 531269; patchy - phpvsfiid 531269
    Bt3—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films; 50 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00097. patchy - phpvsfiid 531270; patchy - phpvsfiid 531270
    2BC—79 to 86 centimeters (31.1 to 33.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior sandy loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 14 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films; 40 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00098. patchy - phpvsfiid 531271; patchy - phpvsfiid 531271
    3C—86 to 117 centimeters (33.9 to 46.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior fine sandy loam; platy structure; very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 95 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00099
    R—117 to 127 centimeters (46.1 to 50.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU00100. Micaceous graywacke sandstone with brown (7.5YR 5/4) coatings.