IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharptown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992NJ033006
  • User Pedon ID: S1992NJ033006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0494
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64733
  • 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: 39.6183319
  • Std. Longitude: -75.4155579
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2.25 mi. N.E. of the intersection of Pointers Auburn Rd, Pointers Sharptown Rd, & Rte. 45, 75 feet E. of Pointers Sharptown Rd.
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ033—Salem
  • MLRA: 149A—Northern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NJ033—Salem County, New Jersey
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39075-E4—Salem, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lenore Matula
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharptown
  • 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
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Aquandic Hapludults
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/1992
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: marine terrace
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/27/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 0
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    0—25

    25—85

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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

    1

    600

    100

    29

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    315

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 2 percent clay; weak granular structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments.
    Bt1—25 to 45 centimeters (9.8 to 17.7 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silt loam; 2 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments. Lab sample # 92P02895. composite sample 25 to 85 cm.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351457; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351457
    Bt2—45 to 65 centimeters (17.7 to 25.6 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) silt loam; 3 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments. Lab sample # 92P02895. composite sample 25 to 85 cm.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351458; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351458
    Bt3—65 to 85 centimeters (25.6 to 33.5 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) silt loam; 3 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments. Lab sample # 92P02895. composite sample 25 to 85 cm.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351456; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1351456
    C1—85 to 96 centimeters (33.5 to 37.8 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) sandy loam; 2 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments.
    C2—96 to 150 centimeters (37.8 to 59.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) loamy sand; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments.