IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oquaga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 459
  • User Pedon ID: 1966PA069005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 459
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 66PA069005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44386
  • 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: 41.3919444
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5180556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.25 mi W of a dirt road on the trail to the shale pit, 0.9 mi S of PA 348 and T334, 1.5 mi NE of Elmhurst
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA069—Lackawanna
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41075-D5—Olyphant, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Sautter, S. Browning, G. Lipscomb
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oquaga
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oquaga
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 2.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 7.67 in/hr of percolation rate and 9 in/hr of percolation rate and 11.33 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/22/1966 ()
  • 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

    BEOC2

    HAMAM

    KALA

    PRSE2

    QUAL

    QUPR2

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Betula occidentalis

    Hamamelis

    Kalmia latifolia

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus alba

    Quercus prinus

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    water birch

    witchhazel

    mountain laurel

    black cherry

    white oak

    chestnut oak

    northern red 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

    23

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    524

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    315

    1050

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    8.4

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    Oi—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03449. "Leaf litter and twigs (upper 2 inches relatively unaltered, lower inch considerably altered)."
    Oa—7 to 10 centimeters (2.8 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03450. Highly decomposed organic matter.
    E—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 20 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 265-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03451. 40% fragments to 14 inches (flat).
    Bw—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 45 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03452. 45% fragments to 6 inches (flat).
    C—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3) interior very channery silt loam; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 45 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03453. 80% fragments to 4 inches (flat); roots to 20 inches.
    R—76 to 162 centimeters (29.9 to 63.8 inches); dusky red (10R 3/2) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU03454. Sandstone and shale; most fractured plane thicknesses range from 0.25-0.5 inch.