IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pompton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 113
  • User Pedon ID: 1969PA019005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 113
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69PA019005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43453
  • Print Date: 5/9/2024

    • 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: 40.9708333
  • Std. Longitude: -80.1202778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4 mi NE of Portersville and 6 mi NW of Prospect.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA019—Butler
  • MLRA: 139—Lake Erie Glaciated Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40080-H1—Prospect, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. G. Grice and E. J. Coilkosz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pompton
  • Classificaton Date - 3/8/2013
  • Classifier - Alex Dado
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Braceville
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.8 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.8 in/hr of percolation rate and 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.5 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/9/1969 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    2FORB

    2GA

    TRIFO

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    Trifolium

    Forb (herbaceous, not grass nor grasslike)

    Grass, annual

    clover

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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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    —

    372

    —

    315

    950

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    9.3

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00838
    Bw—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 2 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00839. Clay bridging of few sand grains on ped faces.; patchy - phpvsfiid 531816; patchy - phpvsfiid 531816
    Bx1—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak very coarse platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 14 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 38 percent clay films between sand grains and 38 percent black stains; 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00840. patchy - phpvsfiid 531818; patchy - phpvsfiid 531818
    Bx2—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 14 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 38 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and 11 percent coarse distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 11 percent coarse distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00841. Some tendency toward platy.
    C1—84 to 114 centimeters (33.1 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very gravelly loamy sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00842
    C2—114 to 150 centimeters (44.9 to 59.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior gravelly sandy loam; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00843; wet, satiated when described;
    2C3—150 to 183 centimeters (59.1 to 72.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00844; wet, satiated when described;. Small flecks of coal throughout.