IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oquaga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 557
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA081063
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 557
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA081063
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44495
  • 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: 41.5683333
  • Std. Longitude: -76.8611111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 130 DEGREES
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA081—Lycoming
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Knight, M. Cessna, N. Ellenberger, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 63
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oquaga
  • PSC - 25 to 72 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/28/1988 ()
  • 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

    FAGR

    PRSE2

    RUIDS2

    Acer rubrum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Prunus serotina

    Rubus idaeus ssp. strigosus

    red maple

    American beech

    black cherry

    grayleaf red raspberry

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—2

    2—72

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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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    664

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    135

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    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); black (N 2/0) interior; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07166; moist when described;
    A—2 to 4 centimeters (0.8 to 1.6 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior channery silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak very fine and fine crumb structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07167; moist when described;
    Bw1—4 to 32 centimeters (1.6 to 12.6 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 4.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 25 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07168; moist when described;
    Bw2—32 to 53 centimeters (12.6 to 20.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior very channery silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 35 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07169; moist when described;
    Bw3—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior very channery loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 1.8 fine roots throughout; 0.1 fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 45 percent by volume subrounded ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07170; moist when described;
    R—74 to 84 centimeters (29.1 to 33.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07171