IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oquaga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 461
  • User Pedon ID: 1966PA069007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 461
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 66PA069007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44389
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 41.3641667
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5672222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.3 mi NW along tel. line form Rt 35008, 1.2 mi W of US Rt 611, 1 mi SW of Elmhurst, Roaring Brook Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA069—Lackawanna
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41075-C5—Moscow, 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 #: 7
  • 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: 0.8 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.8 in/hr of percolation rate and 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.3 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.3 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.3 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.7 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 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

    2GA

    ACRU

    BEPA

    FRAGA

    FRAM2

    POTR5

    PRSE2

    RUHA

    VACCI

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    Acer rubrum

    Betula papyrifera

    Fragaria

    Fraxinus americana

    Populus tremuloides

    Prunus serotina

    Rubus hawaiensis

    Vaccinium

    Grass, annual

    red maple

    paper birch

    strawberry

    white ash

    quaking aspen

    black cherry

    Hawai'i blackberry

    blueberry

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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

    7

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    536

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    270

    1050

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    8.3

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03467. "Matted litter only slightly decomposed (grasses, leaves and twigs)."
    Ap—3 to 16 centimeters (1.2 to 6.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 35 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03468. 35% fragments to 6 inches (flat).
    BA—16 to 39 centimeters (6.3 to 15.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 45 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03469. 45% fragments to 6 inches (round and flat).
    Bw—39 to 69 centimeters (15.4 to 27.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; 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; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03470. 40% fragments to 12 inches (flat).
    R—69 to 125 centimeters (27.2 to 49.2 inches); gray (N 5/0) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU03471. Consolidated sandstone bedrock with few fractured planes.