IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Annemessex
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957NJ023004
  • User Pedon ID: S1957NJ023004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0347
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32875
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • 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: 40.3322220
  • Std. Longitude: -74.5811081
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Middlesex County, New Jersey. J. Wikoff farm, 1 mile east of Plainsboro, 50 feet west from west edge of woods along power line 500 feet northeast of road in cultivated field.
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ023—Middlesex
  • MLRA: 149A—Northern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NJ023—Middlesex County, New Jersey
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G.A. Quakenbush, E.J. Pedersen, S.E. Davidson, and K.P. Wilson.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Annemessex
  • PSC - 33 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/2015
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mattapex
  • PSC - 33 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/28/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/28/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • 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

    1

    Ap—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak coarse granular structure; friable; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A02564. pH: 0-2 = 5.6, 2-6 = 5.4, and 6-11 = 5.7; mainly very fine silica silt and fine sand plus organic matter.
    Bt1—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint and 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fine roots throughout; clay films on faces of peds and clay films in root channels and/or pores and clay films on rock fragments; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02565. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351441; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351441
    Bt2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silt loam; 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint and 3 percent dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak subangular blocky structure; firm; 21.0 very fine pores; clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent fine white (10YR 8/1) mica flakes, unspecified; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02566. Mica oriented parallel to ped faces; occasional decayed chert or feldspar grains and fine fragments.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1351444; continuous - phpvsfiid 1351444
    2BC—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 1 percent fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 21.0 fine pores; clay films on faces of peds and clay bridges on sand and gravel and clay films on sand and gravel; fine white (10YR 8/1) mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 12 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, unspecified; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A02567. Some decayed chert or feldspar.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351438; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351438
    2C1—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy loam; medium distinct and 1 percent fine faint mottles; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 pores; clay films on rock fragments and clay bridges on sand and gravel; 1 percent fine white (10YR 8/1) mica flakes, unspecified; 12 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02568. 3 to 5 percent dark minerals; some chert; iron, manganese and clay cementations.
    3C2—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; friable; 21.0 pores; clay films on rock fragments; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A02569