IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Culleoka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 386
  • User Pedon ID: 1981PA059004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 386
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 81PA059004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44305
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 39.7791667
  • Std. Longitude: -80.1205556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4.5 mi NW of Mount Morris on Rt. T584, 0.5 mi S on T580, 800 ft. W into field.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA059—Greene
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39080-G1—Garards Fort, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Cronce, R. Cunningham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Culleoka
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Culleoka
  • Classificaton Date - 6/2/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/2/1981 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • 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

    ACHIL

    FRAXI

    POLYS

    Achillea

    Fraxinus

    Polystichum

    yarrow

    ash

    hollyfern

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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

    48

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    433

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    45

    1000

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    9.8

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02889
    E—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02890
    Bt1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots; clay films on rock fragments; 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02891. Clay films are most evident on rock fragments.; patchy - phpvsfiid 533125; patchy - phpvsfiid 533125
    Bt2—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; clay films on rock fragments; 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02892. Clay films are most evident on rock fragments.; patchy - phpvsfiid 533126; patchy - phpvsfiid 533126
    Bt3—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior very gravelly silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; clay films on rock fragments; 15 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02893. patchy - phpvsfiid 533127; patchy - phpvsfiid 533127
    BC1—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on rock fragments and 70 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02894. patchy - phpvsfiid 533128; patchy - phpvsfiid 533128
    BC2—71 to 112 centimeters (28.0 to 44.1 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) interior very gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on rock fragments; 25 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume ? to 48-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02895. "Rock fragments are highly weathered shale, 10YR 5/8, crushing in the fingers to silt loam."; patchy - phpvsfiid 533130; patchy - phpvsfiid 533130
    C—112 to 125 centimeters (44.1 to 49.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior very gravelly silt loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; clay films on rock fragments; 75 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02896. patchy - phpvsfiid 533131; patchy - phpvsfiid 533131