IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oquaga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 743
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA113007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 743
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA113007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45252
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 41.3369444
  • Std. Longitude: -76.3561111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 206 DEGREES
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA113—Sullivan
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Knight, M. Cessna, N. Ellenberger, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Oquaga
  • PSC - 25 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/7/1988 ()
  • 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

    FRPE

    PRSE2

    TSCA

    Acer rubrum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Fraxinus pennsylvanica

    Prunus serotina

    Tsuga canadensis

    red maple

    American beech

    green ash

    black cherry

    eastern hemlock

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—6

    6—36

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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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    509

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    225

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior channery silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 4.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.8 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07499; moist when described;
    E—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior channery silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 4.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.8 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07500; moist when described;
    Bw—6 to 36 centimeters (2.4 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior channery silt loam; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 4.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.8 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07501; moist when described;
    C—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior very channery silt loam; 17 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 1.8 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.6 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 50 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter interbedded sedimentary fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07502; moist when described;
    R—64 to 74 centimeters (25.2 to 29.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU07503