IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Culleoka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966PA125012
  • User Pedon ID: S1966PA125012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 66PA125012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45350
  • 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: 40.1472222
  • Std. Longitude: -80.1613889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Washington Co., PA: Cecil Twp about 1 mi N of Hendersonville in a hayfield on Morgan Glo 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-B2—Washington East, 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 #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Culleoka
  • PSC - 23 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Westmoreland
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.33 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.42 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.58 in/hr of percolation rate and 8.58 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: 8/4/1966 (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

    —

    —

    74 - 81

    81 - 106

    - 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—23

    23—58

    74—81

    81—106

    —23—

    —35—

    —7—

    —25—
    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

    —

    —

    358

    —

    225

    950

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    9.7

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06278. 10 percent fine shale fragments. Strongly acid.
    Bt1—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channery silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films; 19 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06279. 19 percent fine shale fragments. Very strongly acid.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1055113; continuous - phpvsfiid 1055113
    Bt2—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films; 40 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU06280. 40 percent shale fragments. Very strongly acid.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1055114; continuous - phpvsfiid 1055114
    BC—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior extremely channery silty clay loam; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films; 75 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06281. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1055115; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1055115
    Cr—74 to 81 centimeters (29.1 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior bedrock; 95 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06282. Silt coats and silt loam fillings in pockets. 95 percent olive (5Y 5/3) very hard shale. Very strongly acid.
    R—81 to 106 centimeters (31.9 to 41.7 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) interior bedrock; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06283. Silty coats on olive (5Y 5/3) shale. Silt coats decreases with depth. 1/2 to 3 inch streaks of reddish brown (5YR 4/4) rotten shale within very hard olive shale. 98 percent coarse fragments. Medium acid.