IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dekalb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 810
  • User Pedon ID: 1967PA123003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 810
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 67PA123003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45327
  • Print Date: 5/2/2024

    • 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: 41.6702778
  • Std. Longitude: -79.1472222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.5 mi S of Vandergrift Corners to FS Rd. 449, 0.3 mi E to borrow pit.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA123—Warren
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41079-F2—Cherry Grove, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Latshaw, D. Grice, J. Cerutti
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.63 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.19 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.38 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/6/1967 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree 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

    ACRU

    BETUL

    FAGUS

    FRAXI

    PRSE2

    PTAQ

    QURU

    TSCA

    Acer rubrum

    Betula

    Fagus

    Fraxinus

    Prunus serotina

    Pteridium aquilinum

    Quercus rubra

    Tsuga canadensis

    red maple

    birch

    beech

    ash

    black cherry

    western brackenfern

    northern red oak

    eastern hemlock

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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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    579

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    315

    1100

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    7.9

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06087. Recent leaf litter.
    Oa—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06088
    E—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) interior channery fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06089
    Bhs—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 25 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06090
    Bs—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior channery fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06091
    Bw—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior very channery sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 50 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06092
    C1—79 to 96 centimeters (31.1 to 37.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior very channery sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 70 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06093
    C2—96 to 119 centimeters (37.8 to 46.9 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) interior very channery sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 85 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06094. Strong brown (7.5YR 5/3) and light gray (5Y 7/2) mottles.
    R—119 to 188 centimeters (46.9 to 74.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior; 11 percent coarse distinct light gray (5Y 7/2); fragments. Lab sample # PSU06095. "Thin bedded (1/2-2"") acid sandstone. Upper 10"" is partly weathered; few thin clay films on coarse fragment surfaces."