IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bethesda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 130
  • User Pedon ID: 1974PA019045
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 130
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 74PA019045
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43472
  • 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: 41.0988889
  • Std. Longitude: -79.8625000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 mi E of PA 308 on LR 10070 then 3/4 mi S of T504 just past Slippery Rcok Creek 100 yds Winto the Strip mine
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA019—Butler
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41079-A7—Hilliards, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Carlisle, R. Smith and G. Latshaw
  • 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 #: 45
  • 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 - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • 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: 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

    2GA

    DACA6

    LOAR10

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    Daucus carota

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Grass, annual

    Queen Anne's lace

    tall fescue

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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

    5

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    390

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    315

    1000

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    9.2

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak very fine granular, and structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 14 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 14 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00976
    AC—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 1 percent fine faint gray (10YR 5/1); 15 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00977
    C1—36 to 79 centimeters (14.2 to 31.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior very channery loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine faint gray (10YR 5/1) and 1 percent fine faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4); 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00978. 5% of volume in viods of 1/2 to 3 inches in diameter.
    C2—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 1 percent fine faint brown (7.5YR 4/4); 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; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00979
    C3—97 to 130 centimeters (38.2 to 51.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior loam; structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) coats on rock fragments; 1 percent fine faint gray (10YR 5/1); 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU00980
    C4—130 to 170 centimeters (51.2 to 66.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior loam; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine faint gray (10YR 5/1) and 1 percent fine faint brown (10YR 4/3); 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; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU00981