IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Valois
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 310
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA039009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 310
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA039009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44222
  • Print Date: 5/18/2024

    • 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: 41.8352778
  • Std. Longitude: -79.9361111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 100 ft S of T903, 600 ft W of T766, 2.5 mi NE of Rockdale, Rockdale; Brown farm.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA039—Crawford
  • MLRA: 139—Lake Erie Glaciated Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41079-G8—Millers Station, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Yoworski, D. Rector, J. Noll, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Valois
  • Classificaton Date - 3/6/2013
  • Classifier - Alex Dado
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wooster
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 3 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 7 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/22/1965 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    MESA

    PHLEU

    Medicago sativa

    Phleum

    alfalfa

    timothy

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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

    2

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    451

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    45

    1000

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    8.5

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 15 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02322
    BA—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02323
    Bw1—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent faint clay films; 25 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02324. patchy - phpvsfiid 532831; patchy - phpvsfiid 532831
    Bw2—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent faint clay films; 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02325. patchy - phpvsfiid 532832; patchy - phpvsfiid 532832
    2BC—89 to 119 centimeters (35.0 to 46.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 38 percent prominent clay films; 75 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02326. patchy - phpvsfiid 532833; patchy - phpvsfiid 532833
    2C—119 to 170 centimeters (46.9 to 66.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent prominent clay films on rock fragments; 75 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02327. patchy - phpvsfiid 532834; patchy - phpvsfiid 532834