IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rayne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 859
  • User Pedon ID: 1972PA129021
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 859
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 72PA129021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45380
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 40.1666667
  • Std. Longitude: -79.2738889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Southeastern Reseasch Laboratory.
  • 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 Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rayne
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.25 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/1972 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    3

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    —

    422

    —

    315

    1150

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    —

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    9.5

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06439
    Bt—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06440. patchy - phpvsfiid 535439; patchy - phpvsfiid 535439
    BCt—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 70 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06441. Thick continuous clay films on coarse fragments.
    R—58 to 86 centimeters (22.8 to 33.9 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) interior bedrock; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06442. Siltstone.
    C1—86 to 157 centimeters (33.9 to 61.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak coarse blocky structure; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06443. 50% yellowish brown siltloam with gray and reddish mottles. 50% coarse fragments of shale and siltloam.
    C2—157 to 203 centimeters (61.8 to 79.9 inches); light gray (5Y 7/1) interior silty clay; weak coarse blocky structure; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06444. Weathered clay shale. Light gray (5Y 7/1) ped faces and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interiors.