IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bethesda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 129
  • User Pedon ID: 1974PA019044
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 129
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 74PA019044
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43470
  • 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: 41.0608333
  • Std. Longitude: -79.8833333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1/2 mi E of PA 308 on T537 then 1/2 mi S of dirt Rd into State gameland number 95.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA019—Butler
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41079-A8—West Sunbury, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Ciolkosz and A. Bilzi
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, acid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 44
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bethesda
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Minesoil
  • Classificaton Date - 8/14/1974
  • 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: 8/14/1974 ()
  • 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

    ACRU

    PIRE

    ROPS

    Acer rubrum

    Pinus resinosa

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    red maple

    red pine

    black locust

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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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    408

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    135

    1000

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00971
    Bw—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4); 5 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00972
    BC—43 to 79 centimeters (16.9 to 31.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 5 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00973
    C1—79 to 132 centimeters (31.1 to 52.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00974
    C2—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and brown (10YR 5/3) interior loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00975