IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wharton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 857
  • User Pedon ID: 1972PA129019
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 857
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 72PA129019
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45378
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 40.1675000
  • Std. Longitude: -79.2794444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Southeastern Agricultural Research Center. 50 ft N of S fence.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA129—Westmoreland
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-B3—Stahlstown, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. C. Ekart and R. P. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 19
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wharton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wharton
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.06 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.06 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.08 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.09 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.09 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately 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 - 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

    DAGL

    HORDE

    Dactylis glomerata

    Hordeum

    orchardgrass

    barley

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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

    6

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    405

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    45

    1150

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    9.5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak medium granular structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4); 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06427
    Bt—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 70 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06428. patchy - phpvsfiid 535433; patchy - phpvsfiid 535433
    BCt—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) interior silt loam; weak coarse platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 11 percent medium distinct gray (5Y 6/1); 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06429
    C—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) interior silty clay loam; weak coarse platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 11 percent coarse distinct gray (5Y 6/1); 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06430
    R—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU06431. Bedrock. Gray interbedded shale and siltstone.