IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Opequon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977PA027047
  • User Pedon ID: 1977PA027047
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 193
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 77PA027047
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43540
  • 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: 40.7158461
  • Std. Longitude: -77.9338634
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Penn State Rock Springs Agro. Farm, 3 mi SW of Pine Grove Mills, 300 ft SE into field
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-F8—Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Pennock
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed Lithic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 47
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Opequon
  • PSC - 20 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Opequon
  • PSC - 20 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/26/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: low
  • 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: 4/26/1977 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    2GA

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    Grass, annual

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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

    4

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    403

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    225

    1000

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    9.1

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; strong fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01396
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky, and strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 70 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01397
    Bt2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior clay; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 70 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01398
    C—56 to 58 centimeters (22.0 to 22.8 inches); dark gray (N 4/0) interior silt; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01399
    R—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU01400