IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oquaga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 741
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA113005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 741
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA113005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45250
  • 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: 41.3508333
  • Std. Longitude: -76.3886111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 80 DEGREES
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA113—Sullivan
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. Ellenberger, M. Cessna, R. Knight, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oquaga
  • PSC - 25 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: undulating
  • Slope Shape Down: undulating
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/18/1988 ()
  • 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

    ACPE

    ACRU

    BEAL2

    FAGR

    PRSE2

    Acer pensylvanicum

    Acer rubrum

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Fagus grandifolia

    Prunus serotina

    striped maple

    red maple

    yellow birch

    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—20

    20—37

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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

    60

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    605

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    90

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior; weak very fine and fine crumb structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07488; moist when described;
    BE—3 to 23 centimeters (1.2 to 9.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior channery loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 30 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07489; moist when described;
    Bw—23 to 40 centimeters (9.1 to 15.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior very channery loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 35 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07490; moist when described;
    C—40 to 72 centimeters (15.7 to 28.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior very channery loam; 12 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.1 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 50 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07491; moist when described;
    R—72 to 82 centimeters (28.3 to 32.3 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07492