IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dekalb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 812
  • User Pedon ID: 1967PA123005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 812
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 67PA123005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45329
  • 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: 41.7980556
  • Std. Longitude: -78.9844444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4 mi S of Kinzua.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA123—Warren
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41078-G8—Cornplanter Bridge, Pennsylvania
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Latshay, D. Grice, J. Cerutti
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 5
  • 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: 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.88 in/hr of percolation rate and 5 in/hr of percolation rate and 7.25 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

    FRAXI

    OLTE

    PRSE2

    PTAQ

    Acer rubrum

    Betula

    Fraxinus

    Olneya tesota

    Prunus serotina

    Pteridium aquilinum

    red maple

    birch

    ash

    desert ironwood

    black cherry

    western brackenfern

    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

    622

    0

    1100

    7.8

    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06110. Recent leaf litter.
    Oa—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06111
    E—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) interior channery sandy loam; weak coarse granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 35 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06112
    Bh—15 to 18 centimeters (5.9 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior channery loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 35 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06113
    Bs—18 to 20 centimeters (7.1 to 7.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior channery sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 35 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06114
    Bw1—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior channery sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 35 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06115
    Bw2—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very channery loam; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 60 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06116
    C—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior very channery sandy loam; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 90 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06117. Few to common iron and manganese stains.
    R—94 to 188 centimeters (37.0 to 74.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU06118. Horizontally bedded acid sandstone.