IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Papakating
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 752
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA115009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 752
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA115009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45262
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 41.8375000
  • Std. Longitude: -76.1094444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 100 ft W from Rt 858 N of Rushville, 3 mi N of Rainbow Inn.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA115—Susquehanna
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-BEL—Belmont, New York
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA115—Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41076-G1—Lawton, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, D. Pease, R. Matelski, W. Steputis, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, nonacid Haplaquepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Papakating
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Papakating
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/26/1958 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - wetlands
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • 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

    ALNUS

    CAREX

    COAM2

    CORNU

    POLYS

    SPIRA

    Alnus

    Carex

    Cornus amomum

    Cornus

    Polystichum

    Spiraea

    alder

    sedge

    silky dogwood

    dogwood

    hollyfern

    spirea

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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

    0

    —

    —

    299

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    0

    900

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    8.9

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior silty clay loam; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05656; wet, satiated when described;
    BAg—10 to 43 centimeters (3.9 to 16.9 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine and medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05657; wet, satiated when described;
    2Bwg—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior silty clay loam; weak medium platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 11 percent medium prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 11 percent medium prominent gray (5YR 5/1); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05658; wet, satiated when described;
    3BCg—58 to 97 centimeters (22.8 to 38.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior clay loam; weak fine platy, and structureless massive; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent fine prominent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU05659; wet, satiated when described;
    3C—97 to 117 centimeters (38.2 to 46.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior clay loam; structureless massive; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU05660; wet, satiated when described;