IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oquaga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 675
  • User Pedon ID: 1985PA103042
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 675
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 85PA103042
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44626
  • 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: 41.3119444
  • Std. Longitude: -75.0102778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1B1-055-1-I29-279 PIKE COUNTY DINGMAN TWP. PECKS POND QUADRANGLE ON ROCK HILL BOYSCOUT CAMP AT COORDINATES LISTED ABOVE. SITE NUMBER ONE SATISFACTORY AND SAMPLED.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA103—Pike
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41075-C1—Pecks Pond, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. Churchill, J. Hallowich, J. Hudak, C. Kohler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 42
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oquaga
  • PSC - 25 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • 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: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/19/1985 ()
  • 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

    ACRU

    QUAL

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Quercus alba

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    white 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

    3—11

    11—51

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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

    4

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    459

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    90

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    Oa—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed channery loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07307; moist when described;
    A—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) crushed channery loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07308; moist when described;
    Bw1—11 to 35 centimeters (4.3 to 13.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed very channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07309; moist when described;
    Bw2—35 to 51 centimeters (13.8 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed very channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07310; moist when described;
    C—51 to 84 centimeters (20.1 to 33.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) crushed extremely channery sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 20 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume ? to 425-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume ? to 163-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07311; moist when described;
    R—84 to 94 centimeters (33.1 to 37.0 inches); crushed; fragments. Lab sample # PSU07312