IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Upshur
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 27
  • User Pedon ID: 1972PA003023
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 27
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 72PA003023
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44176
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 40.6186111
  • Std. Longitude: -79.8161111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 100 yds NEof the maintenance shed in Deer Lakes Regional Park.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA003—Allegheny
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-E7—New Kensington West, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Sautter and R. Newbury
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 23
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Upshur
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Upshur
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/1972 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous 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

    2GA

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    Grass, annual

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—117

    —20—

    —97—
    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

    13

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    —

    369

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    202

    1000

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    —

    —

    —

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    9.6

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00175
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint reddish brown (5YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00176
    Bt2—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00177
    Bt3—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00178
    Bt4—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00179
    Bt5—102 to 117 centimeters (40.2 to 46.1 inches); dusky red (10R 3/4) interior clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00180
    C1—117 to 142 centimeters (46.1 to 55.9 inches); dusky red (10R 3/3) interior extremely channery clay; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 80 percent by volume shale, calcareous fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00181
    C2—142 to 173 centimeters (55.9 to 68.1 inches); dusky red (10R 3/3) interior clay; massive; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00182