IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Culleoka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966PA125011
  • User Pedon ID: S1966PA125011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 66PA125011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45349
  • 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: 40.2094444
  • Std. Longitude: -80.3316667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Washington Co., PA: Hopewell Twp, soil pit in hayfield 3.1 mi NW of Wolfdale on Dr. Riggle's Farm.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA125—Washington
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA611—Greene and Washington Counties, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40080-B3—Washington West, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Newbury, Dr. G. Petersen, J. Hallowich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Penn State University
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Culleoka
  • PSC - 28 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Westmoreland
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.15 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.2 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.2 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.6 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.7 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from calcareous shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/1966 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    —

    —

    64 - 71

    71 - 96

    - 7 -

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic materials

    lithic contact

    0—28

    28—53

    64—71

    71—96

    —28—

    —25—

    —7—

    —26—
    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

    3

    —

    —

    343

    —

    225

    1000

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    9.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06273. 2 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) subsoil clods mixed in the Ap. Less the 2 percent coarse fragments. Neutral.
    Bt—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06274. 5 percent coarse fragments. Very strongly acid.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1055112; continuous - phpvsfiid 1055112
    BC—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channery silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06275. Common light gray (5Y 6/2) soft shale chips and with common fine and medium black (10YR 2/1) iron and manganese concretions and coatings on chips. Thin clay patches. 30 percent coarse fragments. Very strongly acid.
    Cr—64 to 71 centimeters (25.2 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior bedrock; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 95 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06276. Silt coatings on (5Y 5/3) shale and in fractures. Many black (10YR 2/1) iron and manganese coatings on shale. 95 percent coarse fragments. Very strongly acid.
    R—71 to 96 centimeters (28.0 to 37.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) interior and pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) interior bedrock; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06277. Densely packed shale fragments with many black (10YR 2/1) iron and manganese coatings and about 5 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) 1/4 to 1 inch soft concretions in upper 10 inch section of this horizon. Very hard in place. 99 percent coarse fragments.