IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amenia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957NY049002
  • User Pedon ID: S1957NY049002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957NY049002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0293
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32821
  • 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: 43.8702774
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5488892
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lewis County, New York. Go to junction of Highways 410 and 26 west of Castorland. Measure toward Castorland 0.5 miles on Highway 410. On south side of road is an excavation for borrow material, and a pasture fence jogs south to exclude this excavation. Pace about 50 feet from the fence corner at the east and toward Highway 26, turn southward and pace 50 feet from the fence.
  • State: New York
  • County: NY049—Lewis
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY049—Lewis County, New York

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amenia
  • PSC - 10 to 34 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/8/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/8/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    POA

    TRRE3

    Poa

    Trifolium repens

    bluegrass

    white clover

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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

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A02159
    B21—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains in root channels and/or pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02160. Common vertical 1/4 to 1/10 mm holes; few 1/8 inch spherical cavities.
    B22—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 50 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02161. continuous - phpvsfiid 183907; continuous - phpvsfiid 183907
    IIB23—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) gravelly fine sandy loam; 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium mottles; weak thin platy structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02162
    IIC—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium platy parts to angular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A02163