IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wharton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 858
  • User Pedon ID: 72PA129020
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 858
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 72PA129020
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45379
  • 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: 40.1666667
  • Std. Longitude: -79.2758333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Southeastern Agricultural Research Center.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA129—Westmoreland
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40079-B3—Stahlstown, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. C. Ekart and R. P. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wharton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wharton
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.02 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.02 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.02 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.03 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.06 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.09 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.1 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.22 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/1972 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    DAGL

    Dactylis glomerata

    orchardgrass

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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

    9

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    410

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    315

    1150

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    9.5

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06432
    Bt1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 70 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06433. patchy - phpvsfiid 1346885; patchy - phpvsfiid 1346885
    Bt2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 70 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine distinct light gray (5Y 7/1); 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06434. patchy - phpvsfiid 1346886; patchy - phpvsfiid 1346886
    Bt3—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 60 percent coarse distinct light gray (5Y 7/1); 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06435. continuous - phpvsfiid 1346887; continuous - phpvsfiid 1346887
    Bt4—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); light gray (5Y 7/1) interior silty clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 11 percent coarse distinct 2.5Y 4/6 (2.5Y 4/6); 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06436. continuous - phpvsfiid 1346888; continuous - phpvsfiid 1346888
    BC—84 to 117 centimeters (33.1 to 46.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06437. patchy - phpvsfiid 1346889; patchy - phpvsfiid 1346889
    R—117 to 213 centimeters (46.1 to 83.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06438