IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairpoint
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 41
  • User Pedon ID: 1974PA005017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 41
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 74PA005017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44332
  • 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: 40.9547222
  • Std. Longitude: -79.5941667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 12 mi NNW of Kittanning in Sugar Twp, 2.25 mi NE Brown's Croads, about 2 mi into St. gamelands on T442
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA005—Armstrong
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-H5—East Brady, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: I. Ratcliff, A. Bilzi and E. Ciolkosz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, nonacid Typic Udorthents
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairpoint
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Minesoil
  • Classificaton Date - 8/15/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/15/1974 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - culturally induced barren
  • 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

    LOAR10

    LOUNU

    Dactylis glomerata

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Lotus unifoliolatus var. unifoliolatus

    orchardgrass

    tall fescue

    American bird's-foot trefoil

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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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    442

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    158

    1050

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00287
    C1—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior very channery silty clay loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); 5 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00288
    C2—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior very channery clay loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; 11 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); 10 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00289
    C3—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior very channery clay loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 1 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2); 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00290
    C4—94 to 130 centimeters (37.0 to 51.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior sandy clay loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00291
    C5—130 to 173 centimeters (51.2 to 68.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00292. Brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) variegations on shale frag.