IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clymer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 351
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA051021
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 351
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA051021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44267
  • Print Date: 5/2/2024

    • 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: 39.9344444
  • Std. Longitude: -79.4341667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 292 DEGREES
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA051—Fayette
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Knight, M. Cessna, N. Ellenberger, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Humic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clymer
  • PSC - 43 to 85 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/9/1988 ()
  • 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

    BETUL

    FAGR

    QURU

    Betula

    Fagus grandifolia

    Quercus rubra

    birch

    American beech

    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

    0—16

    43—85

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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

    17

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    574

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    270

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    A—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior stony loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine crumb structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.8 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07033; moist when described;
    Bw—16 to 43 centimeters (6.3 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 14 percent prominent black (N 2/0) organic stains on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07034; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 533040; continuous - phpvsfiid 533040
    Bt1—43 to 67 centimeters (16.9 to 26.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 38 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07035; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 533041; continuous - phpvsfiid 533041
    Bt2—67 to 85 centimeters (26.4 to 33.5 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior channery loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 38 percent faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07036; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 533042; continuous - phpvsfiid 533042
    C—85 to 132 centimeters (33.5 to 52.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior very stony sandy loam; 10 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 25 percent by volume subangular ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07037; moist when described;
    R—132 to 142 centimeters (52.0 to 55.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07038