IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otego
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 814
  • User Pedon ID: 1967PA123007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 814
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 67PA123007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45331
  • 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: 41.8922222
  • Std. Longitude: -79.1433333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3 mi N of Warren, 225 ft from S end of Warren Hospital Farm Bridge, Conewango Cr.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA123—Warren
  • MLRA: 139—Lake Erie Glaciated Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41079-H2—Russell, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Carey, R. Matelski, G. Latshaw, D. Grice, R. Cunningham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 7
  • 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 - Lobdell
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/1967 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    MESA

    PHLEU

    RUCR

    Medicago sativa

    Phleum

    Rumex crispus

    alfalfa

    timothy

    curly dock

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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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    366

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    180

    1100

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    8.7

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    Ap—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06134
    BA—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06135. Few thin clay films on prism faces.
    Bw1—51 to 79 centimeters (20.1 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 1 percent fine grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06136. Grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) mottles.
    Bw2—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 60 percent medium and coarse light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 60 percent medium and coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06137. Light brownish gray (2.5Y 5/2) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) mottles.
    Bw3—97 to 109 centimeters (38.2 to 42.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 38 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels; 60 percent fine and medium light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 60 percent fine and medium distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06138. Light brownish gray ( 2.5Y 6/2) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) mottles.
    Bwg1—109 to 135 centimeters (42.9 to 53.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior silt loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 60 percent fine and medium yellowish red (5YR 4/6); fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06139; wet, satiated when described;. Yellowish red (5YR 4/6) mottles. Very porous.
    Bwg2—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior silt loam; weak very coarse platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 60 percent fine and medium yellowish red (5YR 5/6); fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06140; wet, satiated when described;. Yellowish red (5YR 5/6) mottles.
    2C—152 to 178 centimeters (59.8 to 70.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior extremely gravelly coarse sand, silt; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 90 percent by volume sandstone-shale fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU06141; wet, satiated when described;