IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weikert
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1965PA003004
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA003004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 18
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA003004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43525
  • 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: 40.5000000
  • Std. Longitude: -79.8777778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 150 ft E of Rockingham Raod.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA003—Allegheny
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-D8—Pittsburgh East, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Grubb, L. Watkins, R. Newbury
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Lithic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Weikert
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Weikert
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 6 in/hr of percolation rate and 12.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 15.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 17 in/hr of percolation rate and 28.5 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    ACHIL

    DAGL

    Achillea

    Dactylis glomerata

    yarrow

    orchardgrass

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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

    21

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    302

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    225

    950

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    9.8

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00107. Some yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) mixing.
    Bw—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; faint clay films; 50 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00108. Few dark grayish brown (10YR 2/1) worm casts. Mixed angular and subangular blocky structure.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1306117; patchy - phpvsfiid 1306117
    C—33 to 38 centimeters (13.0 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 85 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00109. Coated shales with light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) shale strata.
    R—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior; platy structure; extremely firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 98 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00110