IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Penn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992NJ019002
  • User Pedon ID: 92NJ019002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0605
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64844
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.4886093
  • Std. Longitude: -74.8408356
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Bill Bowlby Farm, Raritan Township; site is 6200 feet SE of center of traffic circle on route 202 in Flemington; pit is in cornfield about 250 feet NE of (perpendicular to) point on Reaville Road about 550 feet S/SE of bridge on Reaville Road crossing stream.
  • 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: D. Kingsbury
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penn
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 20 to 44 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/30/1992
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: pediment
  • Microfeature: terracette
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderate weathered shale and siltstone with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/30/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—44

    75—89

    89—0

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    —-

    —-

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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

    3

    61

    15

    50

    —

    280

    1140

    —

    —

    11

    22

    -1

    12

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Flemington NJ

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity vesicular pores; 2 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments and 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, noncalcareous fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P03644; moist when described;
    Bt—20 to 44 centimeters (7.9 to 17.3 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) channery silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 7 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, noncalcareous fragments and 15 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter shale, noncalcareous fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P03645; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 191881; continuous - phpvsfiid 191881
    C—44 to 75 centimeters (17.3 to 29.5 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) very channery silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; 0.5 very fine and fine low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, noncalcareous fragments and 35 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter shale, noncalcareous fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P03646; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 191882; patchy - phpvsfiid 191882
    CR—75 to 89 centimeters (29.5 to 35.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) extremely channery silt loam; 17 percent clay; massive; very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; slow permeability; 75 percent by volume angular 2-76-150 millimeter shale, noncalcareous fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P03647; moist when described;