IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cedartown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990NJ009001
  • User Pedon ID: S1990NJ009001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0657
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62590
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 39.1244444
  • Std. Longitude: -74.7813889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: On USDA NRCS Plant Materials Center Property (PMC)leased by the State of New Jersey to PMC, on US Highway 9, 3.6mi N of center of Cape May Court House NJ, 600ft E of Bldgs and 20ft N of lane (plot no.1)
  • Map Unit: DocBO—Downer loamy sand, 0 to 5 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: 39074-B7—Woodbine, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Seymour Goodman, Thornton J.F. Hole
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Siliceous, mesic Psammentic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cedartown
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/2014
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Downer
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, siliceous, mesic Typic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Slope Position: depression
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 10
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—30

    30—97

    178—211

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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

    2

    —

    —

    17

    —

    270

    —

    —

    —

    17

    23

    3

    16

    25

    6

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    28349

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; hard, friable; fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03891; moist when described;. these horizons were sampled with a "Madera" core sampler, this sampler is designed to collect exactly 60cm3 volume of soil, the samples were placed in sealed cans, weighed, oven dried at 105 degrees C for 22 hours and reweighed, % moisture c
    Bt1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fine roots throughout; distinct , moist, clay bridges on sand and gravel; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03892. continuous - phpvsfiid 1351290; continuous - phpvsfiid 1351290
    Bt2—51 to 97 centimeters (20.1 to 38.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fine roots throughout; distinct , moist, clay bridges on sand and gravel; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03893. continuous - phpvsfiid 1351291; continuous - phpvsfiid 1351291
    BC—97 to 114 centimeters (38.2 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03894
    C1—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior sand; single grain; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03895
    C2—152 to 178 centimeters (59.8 to 70.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior sand; single grain; loose; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03896
    Cg—178 to 211 centimeters (70.1 to 83.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior sand; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; single grain; loose; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 90P03897. common medium distinct 10YR56 mottles