IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Westmoreland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 832
  • User Pedon ID: 1972PA125043
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 832
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 72PA125043
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45351
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 40.1597222
  • Std. Longitude: -80.1905556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Washington Co., PA: S Strabane Twp 1 mi N-NW of intersection os US 40 and I-79 or .7 mi NE of Laboratory.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA125—Washington
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40080-B2—Washington East, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Grice and J. Weaver
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 43
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Westmoreland
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Westmoreland
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.37 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate


    • 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: 6/12/1972 ()
  • 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

    2GA

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    Grass, annual

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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

    7

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    411

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    45

    950

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    —

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    9.6

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak coarse granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06284. 1% coarse fragments.
    BA—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06285. Strongly acid. 5% coarse fragments.
    Bt1—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06286. Very strongly acid. 10% coarse fragments.
    Bt2—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 70 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06287. Very strongly acid. 5 to 10% coarse fragments.
    Bt3—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 70 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06288. Brown (7.5YR 5/4) coatings on peds. Light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) weathering rind on shale exteriors. Very strongly acid. 25% hard and soft coarse fragments.
    BC—94 to 127 centimeters (37.0 to 50.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 50 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06289. Strongly acid. 50% hard and soft coarse fragments.
    C—127 to 147 centimeters (50.0 to 57.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior very channery loam; structureless massive; 85 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06290. Loam in cracks and on coats of coarse fragments. Olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) in interiors of fine grained sandstone coarse fragments. Few thin clay films on coarse fragments. Strongly acid. 85% hard and soft coarse fragments.
    R—147 to 236 centimeters (57.9 to 92.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU06291. Thin bedded fine grained sandstone.