IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wharton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 239
  • User Pedon ID: 73PA033017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 239
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 73PA033017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44142
  • 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: 41.1958333
  • Std. Longitude: -78.4052778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Caledonia Pike 1 mi E of Slaggers Inn Rd. on S side of road, 13 mi N of Clearfield.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA033—Clearfield
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41078-B4—Huntley, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Cunningham, G. Latshaw
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 17
  • 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 - 5/22/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/22/1973 ()
  • 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

    CAREX

    CHUM

    FAGUS

    FRAXI

    PRSE2

    QURU

    TSCA

    Acer rubrum

    Carex

    Chimaphila umbellata

    Fagus

    Fraxinus

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus rubra

    Tsuga canadensis

    red maple

    sedge

    pipsissewa

    beech

    ash

    black cherry

    northern red oak

    eastern hemlock

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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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    610

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    0

    1050

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    8.3

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    Oa—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01898
    A—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01899
    BA—11 to 28 centimeters (4.3 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01900
    Bt—28 to 49 centimeters (11.0 to 19.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior clay loam; weak coarse blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent clay films between sand grains; 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01901
    Btg1—49 to 74 centimeters (19.3 to 29.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 60 percent coarse distinct light gray (10YR 7/2) and 60 percent coarse distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01902
    Btg2—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior and light gray (5YR 7/1) broken face silty clay loam; strong coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 60 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 60 percent coarse distinct light gray (5Y 7/1); 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01903
    Btg3—94 to 112 centimeters (37.0 to 44.1 inches); light gray (5Y 7/1) interior and light gray (5YR 7/1) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 60 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 60 percent medium distinct light gray (5Y 7/1); 5 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01904
    Btg4—112 to 138 centimeters (44.1 to 54.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior and 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) interior and light gray (5Y 7/1) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 38 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 60 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 60 percent medium distinct light gray (5Y 7/1); 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01905; wet, satiated when described;. Zones of yellowish red (5YR 5/8) approx. 30 percent of horizon interior mottles of light gray (5Y 7/1) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6).