IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 248
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA033031
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 248
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA033031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44152
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 41.1383333
  • Std. Longitude: -78.5500000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: M. HOGUE 150 DEGREES ASPECT AT STASRTING PT#1
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA033—Clearfield
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Chibirka, B. Custer, M. Hogue, M. Montgomery, E. White
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 31
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • PSC - 8 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2014
  • Classifier - Alex Dado
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: structural bench
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/19/1988 ()
  • 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

    ACRU

    FAGUS

    QUAL

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Fagus

    Quercus alba

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    beech

    white oak

    northern red oak

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—8

    8—38

    67—67

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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

    1

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    624

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    180

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (N 2/0) interior; 10 percent clay; rapid permeability; 5.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.8 medium and coarse high-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06925; moist when described;
    E—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior gravelly loam; 13 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 5 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments and 13 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06926; moist when described;
    Bt—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 14 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments and 13 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06927; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 532531; patchy - phpvsfiid 532531
    BC—43 to 72 centimeters (16.9 to 28.3 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior extremely channery silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine angular blocky structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 14 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on surfaces along pores and 38 percent prominent black (N 2/0) black stains throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments and 15 percent by volume angular ? to 265-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments and 45 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06928; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 532532; patchy - phpvsfiid 532533; patchy - phpvsfiid 532532; patchy - phpvsfiid 532533
    R—72 to 82 centimeters (28.3 to 32.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior; slow permeability; 0.1 fine and medium roots in cracks; 0.1 very fine and fine low-continuity void between rock fragments pores; 38 percent prominent black (N 2/0) black stains throughout; fragments. Lab sample # PSU06929; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 532534; patchy - phpvsfiid 532534