IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wassaic
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995NJ037007
  • User Pedon ID: 95NJ037007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0506
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67524
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 40.9922218
  • Std. Longitude: -74.8097229
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Green Township, 1 3/8 miles north-northeast of Greendell, 1900 feet northwest of junction of Routes 611 and 608, 1250 feet north-northeast of Route 608, in wooded area 250 feet northwest of woods edge within Wittingham Fish and Wildlife Management Area.
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ037—Sussex
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NJ037—Sussex County, New Jersey
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40074-H7—Tranquility, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DHK, SMF, EB
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wassaic
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 17 to 37 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/13/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: gully
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: h slight weathered limestone, unspecified with 10 to <45 and a strike of 180 degrees and a dip of 82 to 82 degrees
  • Surface Fragments: 0.50 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/13/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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—17

    17—37

    37—54

    54—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

    6

    31

    18

    204

    —

    340

    1100

    —

    —

    9

    —

    —

    10

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    Newton

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    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 4.0 fine low-continuity vesicular pores; 4 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P03840
    AB—4 to 17 centimeters (1.6 to 6.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; 7.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 2.0 fine low-continuity vesicular pores; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P03841
    L—6 to 0 centimeters (2.4 to 0.0 inches); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P03839
    Bt—17 to 37 centimeters (6.7 to 14.6 inches); 90 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3) loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 3.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 2.0 very fine and fine low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 13 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 95P03842. patchy - phpvsfiid 1563087; patchy - phpvsfiid 1563087
    Cr—37 to 54 centimeters (14.6 to 21.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly loam; massive; 2.0 very fine and fine roots around fragments; 30 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue. Structureless, dictated by rock fragments.
    R—54 to 200 centimeters (21.3 to 78.7 inches); fragments.