IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oquaga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 778
  • User Pedon ID: 1963PA117010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 778
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 63PA117010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45290
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 41.7691667
  • Std. Longitude: -76.9419444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 480 ft NW of Rt 58060. 0.4 mi W of State Road Church on Rt. 58060.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA117—Tioga
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41076-G8—Roseville, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Carey, J. Rayburn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oquaga
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oquaga
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/1963 ()
  • 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

    2FORB

    ACRU

    PIRE

    POTR5

    RHUS

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    Acer rubrum

    Pinus resinosa

    Populus tremuloides

    Rhus

    Forb (herbaceous, not grass nor grasslike)

    red maple

    red pine

    quaking aspen

    sumac

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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

    25

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    518

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    270

    900

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    8.1

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior channery silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU05763
    Bw1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; clay films on surfaces along root channels; 25 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05764
    Bw2—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior and reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels; 75 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05765
    C—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior and pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) interior and dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior silt loam; friable, slightly sticky; distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels and prominent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 85 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05766. Structureless with silt fillings between shale fragments.
    R—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 2/4) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU05767