IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otego
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 303
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA039002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA039002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44214
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 41.5583333
  • Std. Longitude: -80.1119444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 100 ft from French Creek, 140 ft W of hickory tree, between creek and RR 4.5 mi SE of Meadville on Rt 322
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA039—Crawford
  • MLRA: 139—Lake Erie Glaciated Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41080-E1—Cochranton, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Grice, D. Rector, J. Noll, M. Yoworski, R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Otego
  • Classificaton Date - 3/6/2013
  • Classifier - Alex Dado
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lobdell
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 9 in/hr of percolation rate and 11.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 11.75 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/1965 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    1

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    314

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    180

    1000

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    —

    —

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    8.9

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02275
    Bw1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02276
    Bw2—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02277
    Bw3—58 to 71 centimeters (22.8 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium faint pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 60 percent medium prominent brown (7.5YR 5/4); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02278. Roots are along prism faces.
    Bw4—71 to 117 centimeters (28.0 to 46.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and gray (10YR 6/1) broken face silt loam; moderate very coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; 60 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02279. Dark brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam prism interiors with gray (10YR 6/1) prism faces; roots are along prism faces.
    2C—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and gray (10YR 6/1) broken face very fine sandy loam; moderate very coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 60 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02280. Dark brown (7.5YR 4/4) very fine sandy loam prism interiors with gray (10YR 6/1) prism faces; few fine black concretions; roots are along prism faces.
    3Cg—152 to 165 centimeters (59.8 to 65.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and gray (10YR 6/1) broken face sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate very coarse prismatic structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 60 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02281. Roots are along prism faces; gray (10YR 6/1) prism faces and dark brown (7.5YR 4/4) mottled prism interiors.