IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rayne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 734
  • User Pedon ID: 1971PA111003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 734
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 71PA111003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45242
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 39.9950000
  • Std. Longitude: -79.1805556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3 mi SW of Somerset on 281, 1.4 mi W of road to Bakersville, 250 ft S at road.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA111—Somerset
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39079-H2—Rockwood, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Latshaw, S. Ekart, R. Matelski, E. Reber
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rayne
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rayne
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 16.15 in/hr of percolation rate and 21.82 in/hr of percolation rate and 29.16 in/hr of percolation rate and 34.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 38.32 in/hr of percolation rate and 39.99 in/hr of percolation rate and 47.04 in/hr of percolation rate and 68.57 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/18/1971 ()
  • 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

    AVENA

    TRIFO

    Avena

    Trifolium

    oat

    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

    15

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    669

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    315

    1150

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    8.9

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05568
    Bt1—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05569. patchy - phpvsfiid 534950; patchy - phpvsfiid 534950
    Bt2—51 to 86 centimeters (20.1 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery loam; very strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent by volume unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05570. patchy - phpvsfiid 534951; patchy - phpvsfiid 534951
    Bt3—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels and faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05571. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534953; continuous - phpvsfiid 534952; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534953; continuous - phpvsfiid 534952
    Bt4—109 to 140 centimeters (42.9 to 55.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels and faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05572. Many medium and coarse black coatings in upper 2 inches.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534955; continuous - phpvsfiid 534954; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534955; continuous - phpvsfiid 534954
    BC—140 to 160 centimeters (55.1 to 63.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior clay loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels and faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium and coarse mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05573. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534957; continuous - phpvsfiid 534956; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 534957; continuous - phpvsfiid 534956
    C1—160 to 196 centimeters (63.0 to 77.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery silt loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05574
    C2—196 to 236 centimeters (77.2 to 92.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior very channery loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05575
    R—236 to 251 centimeters (92.9 to 98.8 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) interior; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05576