IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oquaga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 564
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA081070
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 564
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA081070
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44503
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 41.4811111
  • Std. Longitude: -76.8361111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: BARBOURS, PA QUADRANGLE - 9,200 FT DUE WEST OF LOOKOUT TOWER, 5,200 FT NE OF SHARP TOP (A MOUNTAIN)
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA081—Lycoming
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41076-D7—Barbours, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Anderson, J. Chibirka, T. Craul, M. Horkey, A. Wilkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 70
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oquaga
  • PSC - 25 to 90 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/1988 ()
  • 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

    ACSA3

    FAGR

    PRSE2

    Acer saccharum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Prunus serotina

    sugar maple

    American beech

    black cherry

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—5

    5—69

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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

    35

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    566

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    225

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); black (N 2/0) interior; 5.0 very fine and fine roots top of horizon; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU07215; moist when described;
    A—2 to 7 centimeters (0.8 to 2.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07216; moist when described;
    Bw1—7 to 25 centimeters (2.8 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07217; moist when described;
    Bw2—25 to 50 centimeters (9.8 to 19.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly loam; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07218; moist when described;
    Bw3—50 to 71 centimeters (19.7 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior very gravelly loam; 17 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine moderate-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 14 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on rock fragments; 5 percent by volume subangular ? to 265-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume subrounded ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07219; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 534150; patchy - phpvsfiid 534150
    BC—71 to 92 centimeters (28.0 to 36.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior extremely gravelly loam; 17 percent clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 14 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on rock fragments; 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 265-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume subrounded ? to 39-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07220; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 534151; patchy - phpvsfiid 534151
    R—92 to 102 centimeters (36.2 to 40.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07221