IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oquaga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 779
  • User Pedon ID: 1963PA117011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 779
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 63PA117011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45291
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 41.7408333
  • Std. Longitude: -77.0300000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 600 ft E of T443, 3.9 mi SE of Canoe Camp on Rts. 58085 and T443.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA117—Tioga
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41077-F1—Blossburg, 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 #: 11
  • 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: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/1963 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous 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

    DASP2

    POTR5

    PRUNU

    RUHA

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    Danthonia spicata

    Populus tremuloides

    Prunus

    Rubus hawaiensis

    Forb (herbaceous, not grass nor grasslike)

    poverty oatgrass

    quaking aspen

    plum

    Hawai'i blackberry

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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

    34

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    463

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    180

    900

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    8.3

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05768
    Bw—15 to 51 centimeters (5.9 to 20.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior channery silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05769. patchy - phpvsfiid 535032; patchy - phpvsfiid 535032
    C1—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior and dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior silt loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 55 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU05770. Thick silt and clay flows on rock faces and in pores.
    C2—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior and dark red (10R 3/6) interior silt loam; friable; clay films on rock fragments; 75 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05771