IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): QUAKERTOWN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991NJ019002
  • User Pedon ID: 91NJ019002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991NJ019002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0657
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63699
  • Print Date: 10/31/2024

    • 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: 40.5663872
  • Std. Longitude: -74.9180527
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Peterson Farm; Pittstown, NJ, USGS Quad.; about 1.6 miles east on Quakertown Rd. from corner of route 579 in Quakertown, NJ and 0.25 mile north on Farm Rd.; 0.1 mile west and 400 feet north to edge of woods.
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ019—Hunterdon
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NJ019—Hunterdon County, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L.J.M., M.J. Levin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - QUAKERTOWN
  • PSC - 22 to 72 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Quakertown
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/9/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: pediment
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: sandstone and siltstone with 10 to <45 and a dip of 10 to 10 degrees
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/9/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 29
  • Microrelief Kind: microdepression
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CAOV2

    FAGR

    FRAM2

    LINDE2

    QUAL

    Carya ovata

    Fagus grandifolia

    Fraxinus americana

    Lindera

    Quercus alba

    shagbark hickory

    American beech

    white ash

    spicebush

    white oak

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—22

    22—103

    103—0

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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

    60

    30

    189

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    0

    1130

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    11

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    12

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    Flemington, NJ

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 91P03752
    A—3 to 14 centimeters (1.2 to 5.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 10.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; 10.0 fine to coarse moderate-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03753
    BA—14 to 25 centimeters (5.5 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; 19 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03754
    Bt1—25 to 50 centimeters (9.8 to 19.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 10.0 fine and medium low-continuity tubular and 0.5 coarse low-continuity tubular pores; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume angular 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 25 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03755. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 191767; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 191767
    Bt2—50 to 68 centimeters (19.7 to 26.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume angular 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 25 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 91P03756. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 191768; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 191768
    Bt3—68 to 106 centimeters (26.8 to 41.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; 30 percent clay; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine irregular iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume angular 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments and 40 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 91P03757. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 191769; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 191769
    R—106 to 131 centimeters (41.7 to 51.6 inches); fragments.