IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oquaga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 596
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA089014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 596
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA089014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44538
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 41.0900000
  • Std. Longitude: -75.2652778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 80 ft N of stone pile, 120 ft W into the woods, .5 mi N of LR45026 on T607, .75 mi N of Misertown.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA089—Monroe
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41075-A3—Mount Pocono, 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 #: 14
  • 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: 1.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.5 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

    PIST

    QUPR2

    Pinus strobus

    Quercus prinus

    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

    12

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    372

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    45

    1250

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    9.2

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU04620. Mixed hardwood leaves.
    Oa—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); black (5YR 2/1) interior; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04621. Partially decomposed leaf litter.
    A1—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior very channery loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 50 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04622
    A2—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior very channery loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 50 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04623
    Bw1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior very channery loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 45 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04624. Some clay bridging.
    Bw2—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior very channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films; 45 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04625
    BC—41 to 63 centimeters (16.1 to 24.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior very channery sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 80 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU04626
    R—63 to 79 centimeters (24.8 to 31.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU04627. Weathered fine grained red sandstone.