IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oquaga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1959PA037015
  • User Pedon ID: 1959PA037015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 296
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 59PA037015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44205
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.9847222
  • Std. Longitude: -76.3597222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 mi E of Mainville on Rt 19021, 75 ft S opposite pole 20949 and 400 ft W of barn; photo AQR-63-181
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA037—Columbia
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA037—Columbia County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-H3—Shumans, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Matelski, W. Steptus, P. Parrish, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oquaga
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Leck Kill
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/1959 ()
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    TRPR2

    Trifolium pratense

    red clover

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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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    189

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    225

    1100

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    9.8

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 5.0 roots; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02223. 15-20% coarse fragments.
    BA—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02224. 15-20% coarse fragments; partial clay films.
    Bt—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02225. 15-20% coarse fragments.
    BC—58 to 69 centimeters (22.8 to 27.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior channery silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02226. Thin partial clay films on peds.
    C—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior channery silty clay loam; weak medium platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; 60 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02227. Partial clay films.
    2Cr—81 to 94 centimeters (31.9 to 37.0 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) interior and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU02228. "Mixed red shales, siltstones and some sandstones having dusky red (10YR 3/4) reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and dark brown (7.5YR 4/2) colors."