IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Papakating
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 754
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA115011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 754
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA115011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45264
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 41.9441667
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0880556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 330 ft SE of State Game Lands Boundary along Rt 858, 25 mi NW of Rt. 471.
  • 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-H1—Friendsville, 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 #: 11
  • 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

    ACRU

    ALNUS

    CAREX

    PIST

    ULMUS

    Acer rubrum

    Alnus

    Carex

    Pinus strobus

    Ulmus

    red maple

    alder

    sedge

    eastern white pine

    elm

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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

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    360

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    0

    900

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    8.7

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 11 percent fine faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 11 percent fine faint dark gray (N 4/0); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05666; wet, satiated when described;
    BAg—10 to 51 centimeters (3.9 to 20.1 inches); dark gray (N 4/0) interior silty clay loam; weak thin platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent medium prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and 11 percent medium prominent gray (N 5/0); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05667; wet, satiated when described;
    Bwg—51 to 91 centimeters (20.1 to 35.8 inches); 5BG 4/2 (5BG 4/2) interior silty clay; weak platy, and weak fine blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 60 percent fine and medium prominent gray (N 5/0) and 60 percent fine and medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU05668; wet, satiated when described;