IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Library
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 24
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA003010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 24
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA003010
  • 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: 40.2933333
  • Std. Longitude: -79.9869444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Fabry property, 0.9 mi S of its intersection with Brownsville Rd.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA003—Allegheny
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-C8—Glassport, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Grubb, R. Newbury
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active Aquollic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Library
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Library
  • Classificaton Date - 6/30/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.19 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.19 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.31 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.31 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.44 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/30/1965 ()
  • 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

    DASP2

    DAST

    ROPS

    TORA2

    Danthonia spicata

    Datura stramonium

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    Toxicodendron radicans

    poverty oatgrass

    jimsonweed

    black locust

    eastern poison ivy

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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

    3

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    360

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    225

    950

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    9.6

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00150
    Bt1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior clay; moderate coarse blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; brown (10YR 4/3) clay films; 1 percent fine faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2); 60 percent iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00151. continuous - phpvsfiid 531298; continuous - phpvsfiid 531298
    Bt2—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior clay; strong coarse blocky, and strong coarse prismatic structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay films; 11 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 11 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6); 60 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00152. continuous - phpvsfiid 531299; continuous - phpvsfiid 531299
    Bt3—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior clay; strong coarse prismatic, and strong coarse blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay films; 11 percent medium prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 11 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8); 60 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume shale, calcareous fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00153. continuous - phpvsfiid 531300; continuous - phpvsfiid 531300
    BC—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior clay; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and strong medium and coarse blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 15 percent by volume shale, calcareous fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00154. Weathered light gray (10YR 7/2) limestone. Streaks and tongues of dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4). Thick clay films on prism faces and lining pores.
    C1—69 to 104 centimeters (27.2 to 40.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior clay; structureless massive; firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 40 percent by volume shale, calcareous fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00155. Light gray (10YR 7/2) weathered limestone.
    2C2—104 to 114 centimeters (40.9 to 44.9 inches); dark reddish gray (10R 4/1) interior silty clay loam; weak fine platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00156. Streaked with black.
    3R—114 to 124 centimeters (44.9 to 48.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior; 98 percent by volume shale, calcareous fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00157. Rock color thin bedded sandstone structure.