IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Opequon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1967PA061009
  • User Pedon ID: 1967PA061009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 396
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 67PA061009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44316
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 40.6039031
  • Std. Longitude: -78.0372006
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 mi NW of Petersburg, F. R. Zabreski property.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA061—Huntingdon
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40078-E1—Alexandria, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Carey, T. Craft, G. Yoder
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, illitic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Opequon
  • PSC - 15 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Corydon
  • PSC - 15 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 1.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.19 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.31 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.69 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.88 in/hr of percolation rate and 6 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: high
  • 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: 6/8/1967 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous 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

    JUGLA

    PIVI2

    POPR

    PRUNU

    Juglans

    Pinus virginiana

    Poa pratensis

    Prunus

    walnut

    Virginia pine

    Kentucky bluegrass

    plum

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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

    14

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    241

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    225

    1000

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    9.9

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02971
    Ap2—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02972
    Bt1—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) interior silty clay; strong fine and medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02973
    Bt2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) interior channery silty clay; moderate medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02974
    R—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU02975. Limestone; Clay and silt deposits in fractured limestone.