IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sisk
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993NY031011
  • User Pedon ID: S1993NY031011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0303
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66481
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 44.1005554
  • Std. Longitude: -73.9688873
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Keene, along Upper Twin Brook, 2.3 miles upstream from junction of Upper and Lower Twin Brooks, 200 feet east of brook.
  • State: New York
  • County: NY031—Essex
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY031—Essex County, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ed Stein, Matt Havens, and Steve Carlisle
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sisk
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed Oxyaquic Humicryods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/1993
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: kettle
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 60.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/20/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    28—30

    30—58

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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

    20

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    930

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    1524

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    0

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    Oe—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish gray (10R 3/1) Error; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01878
    Oa—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish gray (10R 3/1) Error; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01879
    E—28 to 30 centimeters (11.0 to 11.8 inches); reddish gray (5YR 5/2) fine sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear boundary. No sample.
    Bh—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); 60 percent black (N 2/0) and 40 percent dusky red (10R 3/2) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01880
    Bhs—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); dusky red (10R 3/2) fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01881
    BC—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 30 percent dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01882
    C—76 to 112 centimeters (29.9 to 44.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 94P01883