IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mattapex
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958NJ023002
  • User Pedon ID: S1958NJ023002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0348
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32876
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 40.3297234
  • Std. Longitude: -74.5827789
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Middlesex County, New Jersey. 1 mile east of Plainsboro, south of Plainsboro-Cranbury Road, west of crossing of high tension line distance of 13 utility poles, in field about 225 feet; Britton farm.
  • Map Unit: WogA—Woodstown loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, Northern Coastal Plain
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40074-C5—Hightstown, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Quakenbush
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Manokin
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/9/2015
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mattapex
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/30/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—25

    25—79

    61—99

    79—99

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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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; massive parts to weak fine granular; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A02570
    Bt1—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02571. Vertical irregular jointing of undetermined space; concentrations of fine roots in joints.
    Bt2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; weak and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02572. Films are weak.
    Bt3—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; 1 percent fine faint mottles; massive parts to weak coarse subangular blocky; firm; 1 percent clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02573
    Bt4—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02574. Sand constituent is fine or very fine.
    2C1—79 to 99 centimeters (31.1 to 39.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) Error; firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A02575
    2C2—99 centimeters (39.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) Error; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 40A02576