IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otego
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 802
  • User Pedon ID: 1966PA121005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 802
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 66PA121005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45318
  • 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: 41.5236111
  • Std. Longitude: -79.8575000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 130 yds NW of the oil tanks on T384 past the Deeter farm, 2.5 mi S of Bradley Town.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA121—Venango
  • MLRA: 139—Lake Erie Glaciated Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41079-E7—Dempseytown, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Grice, N. Churchill, D. Hipes
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active Aquic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Otego
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/2013
  • Classifier - Alex Dado
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Middlebury
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 6.1 in/hr of percolation rate and 7.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 18 in/hr of percolation rate and 1 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.2 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.7 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.8 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.9 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/15/1966 ()
  • 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

    BETUL

    PRUNU

    Acer rubrum

    Betula

    Prunus

    red maple

    birch

    plum

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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

    1

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    354

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    315

    1050

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    8.9

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06019
    A—3 to 20 centimeters (1.2 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06020
    BA—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06021
    Bw—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent medium faint brown (10YR 4/3) and 1 percent medium distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06022
    Bwg1—58 to 71 centimeters (22.8 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 60 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06023
    2Bwg2—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 14 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay films; 60 percent medium distinct gray (N 6/0) and 60 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8); 30 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06024. patchy - phpvsfiid 535224; patchy - phpvsfiid 535224
    3C—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior extremely gravelly sand; structureless single grain; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 85 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06025