IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Opequon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1964PA027020
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA027020
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 182
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA027020
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43528
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 40.9663982
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6174630
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 700' NE of Jct of PA445 and 872; between Hublersburg and Howard, PA. 1 mi SW of Jacksonville
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-H5—Madisonburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. J. Noll and R. H. Henry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Typic Paleudalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Opequon
  • PSC - 20 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Corydon
  • PSC - 20 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/6/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/6/1964 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    MESA

    POPR

    TARAX

    Medicago sativa

    Poa pratensis

    Taraxacum

    alfalfa

    Kentucky bluegrass

    dandelion

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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

    9

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    305

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    315

    1000

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    9.5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; faint clay films; 15 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01301. 10-15% limestone channers.; patchy - phpvsfiid 532145; patchy - phpvsfiid 532145
    Bt—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior clay; strong very fine blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots in cracks; clay films and 14 percent dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01302. 40% fragments chiefly 2-6 inches.; patchy - phpvsfiid 532146; patchy - phpvsfiid 532146
    BC—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior clay; moderate very fine blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots in cracks; 90 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01303. 90% coarse fragments chiefly 2-6 inches. B2 material deposited in pockets along bedding planes.
    R—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); dark gray (N 4/0) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU01304. With white calcite streaks; vertical bedding occasional thin streaks of sili along bedding planes.