IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Downer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958NJ009004
  • User Pedon ID: S1958NJ009004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0351
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32879
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.9767778
  • Std. Longitude: -74.9251722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Cape May County, New Jersey. 3/4 mile north of canal, on west side of Shunpike Road, 250 yards west of road, toward projection of woods; Phillips farm.
  • Map Unit: DoeAO—Downer sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, Northern Tidewater Area
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ009—Cape May
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NJ009—Cape May County, New Jersey
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38074-H8—Cape May, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, semiactive, mesic Inceptic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Downer
  • PSC - 41 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/24/2014
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Downer
  • PSC - 41 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flat, knoll, fluviomarine terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/30/1958 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—41

    41—56

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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

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02593
    E—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02594
    BE—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy loam; massive parts to weak fine granular; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02595
    Bt—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly plastic; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02596
    BC—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; sandy loam; massive; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02597
    C—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; sand; single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 40A02598