IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Downer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NJ025002
  • User Pedon ID: S1988NJ025002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0705
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60823
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 40.1438889
  • Std. Longitude: -74.1938889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Approx. 2500 feet S of the junction of Southard and Manassa Rds.; Approx. 900 feet W of Manassa road.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ025—Monmouth
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NJ025—Monmouth County, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Downer
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/2014
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Downer
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, siliceous, mesic Typic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy fluviomarine deposits
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    4

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    31

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    90

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (N 2/0) interior, gray (10YR 6/1) interior, dry; fine sand; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03758
    E—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior fine sand; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03759
    A'—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior coarse sand; fragments. Lab sample # 88P03760. Loose material between fragments is (2.5Y 6/4) light yellowish brown loamy sand. Weakly cemented fragments ranging in size from 3 to 30 cm. This layer appears to be continuous with fragments 10- 15 cm thick.
    Bt—38 to 79 centimeters (15.0 to 31.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03761. Less than 5% fine quatzite pebbles.
    BC—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior loamy fine sand; massive; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P03762. Few fine gray (10YR 6/1) gray bodies that appear initially to be drainage—on close examination they are discrete bodies within the matrix.