IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rayne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 17
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA003003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 17
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA003003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43514
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 40.5591667
  • Std. Longitude: -79.9930556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 250 ft along the field road SE of the old barn on the Coyne property.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA003—Allegheny
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-E8—Glenshaw, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Grubb, L. Watkins, R. Newbury
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rayne
  • 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: 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.62 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.25 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    2FORB

    PHLEU

    POPR

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    Phleum

    Poa pratensis

    Forb (herbaceous, not grass nor grasslike)

    timothy

    Kentucky bluegrass

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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

    13

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    347

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    0

    900

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    9.7

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00101
    Bt1—18 to 48 centimeters (7.1 to 18.9 inches); 10YR 5/ (10YR 5/), interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; clay films; 15 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00102. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531272; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531272
    Bt2—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films; 30 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00103. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531273; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531273
    C1—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay; platy structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 70 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00104. Coatings on shale; common clay films along cracks; few black coatings.
    2C2—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, nonplastic; 85 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00105. Coatings on shale. Clay lining some voids.
    3C3—109 to 132 centimeters (42.9 to 52.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior and olive (5Y 5/3) interior silty clay loam; platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 1 percent medium prominent gray (N 6/0); 40 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00106. Having a coal blossom 1 to 3 inches thick.