IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Newport
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008-RI005-001-Newport
  • User Pedon ID: S08-RI005-001-Newport
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0528
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24059
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 41.5271378
  • Std. Longitude: -71.3677139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Jamestown, RI, 250 ft north of Eldridge Road, 630 feet west of East Shore Road, Community Gardens (Ceppie Farm).
  • Map Unit: NeA—Newport silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Rhode Island
  • County: RI005—Newport
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: RI600—State of Rhode Island: Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, and Washington Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41071-E3—Prudence Island, Rhode Island

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Turenne, Donald Parizek, Debbie Surabian
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Newport
  • PSC - 0 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Newport
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/10/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slightly weathered, loamy eolian deposits derived from sandstone and siltstone over slightly weathered, loamy lodgment till derived from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: drumlin
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Rhode Island Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/10/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 15
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    53 - 200

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—20

    20—53

    53—200

    53—

    —-

    —-

    —-

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    6/10/2008

    50

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    14
    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

    2

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    28

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    240

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular, and structureless coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded ? to 15-? millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subangular ? to 15-? millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw—20 to 53 centimeters (7.9 to 20.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) channery fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded ? to 15-? millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded ?-100 - 430 millimeter mixed fragments and 8 percent by volume flat subangular ? to 15-? millimeter mixed fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Cd1—53 to 87 centimeters (20.9 to 34.3 inches); black (N 2.5/), fine sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded ? to 15-? millimeter mixed fragments and 4 percent by volume flat subangular ? to 15-? millimeter mixed fragments; clear irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Cd2—87 to 121 centimeters (34.3 to 47.6 inches); 60 percent very dark gray (N 3/), and 40 percent dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) loam; structureless massive, and structureless single grain; firm; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded ? to 15-? millimeter mixed fragments and 6 percent by volume flat subangular ? to 15-? millimeter mixed fragments; clear irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Cd3—121 to 200 centimeters (47.6 to 78.7 inches); black (N 2.5/), loam; structureless massive; very firm; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded ? to 15-? millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subangular ? to 15-? millimeter mixed fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry