IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oquaga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 595
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA089013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 595
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA089013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44537
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 41.1302778
  • Std. Longitude: -75.3452778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 75 ft E of pole 30-629 150 ft E of shale pit.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA089—Monroe
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41075-B3—Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, F. Loughry, E. Sautter, G. Fisher
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oquaga
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oquaga
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 6 in/hr of percolation rate and 8.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 9.5 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/1965 ()
  • 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

    ACRU

    KALA

    PIST

    QUPR2

    Acer rubrum

    Kalmia latifolia

    Pinus strobus

    Quercus prinus

    red maple

    mountain laurel

    eastern white pine

    chestnut oak

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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

    14

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    512

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    45

    1200

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    8.7

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04611. Mixed hardwood leaf; litter 2 inches thick.
    Oa—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); black (5YR 2/1) interior; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04612. Hardwood leaf litter partially decomposed.
    E—10 to 13 centimeters (3.9 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior channery sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 60 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU04613
    Bh—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior channery loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 60 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04614
    Bs—18 to 23 centimeters (7.1 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior channery loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04615
    Bw1—23 to 40 centimeters (9.1 to 15.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films between sand grains; 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04616
    Bw2—40 to 56 centimeters (15.7 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04617
    BC—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior channery sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 40 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04618. Structure modified by fragments.
    R—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior; 80 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU04619