IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Onteora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10NY003003
  • User Pedon ID: S2010NY003003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0147
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36912
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 42.0130500
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7941111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Independence. North of South Hill / Snow road.
  • Map Unit: 116B—Onteora channery silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: New York
  • County: NY003—Allegany
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-BEL—Belmont, New York
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY003—Allegany County Area, New York
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42077-A7—Whitesville, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt Havens and Dean Shields
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Aquic Fragiudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Onteora
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, frigid Aquic Fragiudepts
  • PSC - 28 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/4/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/4/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 126
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 24
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

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    51 - 157

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    fragipan

    0—28

    28—51

    51—157

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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

    5

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    661.6

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    190

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; channery silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots and 6.0 fine roots; 1 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron lining pores; 15 percent by volume flat subangular 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00682; observed in pit, small
    Bw—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 7 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 8 percent medium distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 15 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 25 percent by volume flat subangular 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00683; observed in pit, small
    Bx—51 to 157 centimeters (20.1 to 61.8 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) and 40 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) very channery loam; very coarse prismatic structure; firm; brittle; 0.5 very fine roots top of horizon; 6.0 fine vesicular pores; 40 percent by volume flat subangular 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 11N00684; observed in pit, small