IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oquaga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 603
  • User Pedon ID: 1985PA089025
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 603
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 85PA089025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44547
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 41.0644444
  • Std. Longitude: -75.1736111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1B3-041-3-I29-006 PEDON DESCRIBED BY STATE OFFICE STAFF MONROE COUNTY MIDDLE SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP EAST STROUDSBURG QUAD AT COORDINATES LISTED ABOVE SITE ONE TOP DEEP AFTER TWO PITS DUG. SITE TWO NO PERMISSION. SITE THREE SATISFACTORY AND SAMPLED.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA089—Monroe
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41075-A2—East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. Churchill, J. Hallowich, J. Hudak, O. Lenkner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oquaga
  • PSC - 25 to 94 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/1985 ()
  • 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

    QUAL

    QUPR2

    QURU

    Quercus alba

    Quercus prinus

    Quercus rubra

    white oak

    chestnut oak

    northern red oak

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—20

    50—75

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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

    11

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    296

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    180

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    Oa—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); black (N 2/0) crushed; weak medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07273; moist when described;
    BA—4 to 24 centimeters (1.6 to 9.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) crushed channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07274; moist when described;
    Bw1—24 to 54 centimeters (9.4 to 21.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07275; moist when described;
    Bw2—54 to 79 centimeters (21.3 to 31.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07276; moist when described;
    C—79 to 98 centimeters (31.1 to 38.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) crushed channery sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07277; moist when described;
    R—98 to 108 centimeters (38.6 to 42.5 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07278