IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bigapple
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995NY047001
  • User Pedon ID: S1995NY047001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0180
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68258
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 40.5941696
  • Std. Longitude: -73.9151230
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: White Island, Marne Park, Brooklyn, New York, Janaree Bay.
  • Map Unit: BiA—Bigapple fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: New York
  • County: NY047—Kings
  • MLRA: 149B—Long Island-Cape Cod Coastal Lowland
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY047—Kings County, New York

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Dredgic, mixed, mesic Typic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bigapple (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2017
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bigapple
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy dredge spoils
  • Landscape: lowland
  • Anthropogenic Feature: sandy fill
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/1995 (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

    0—8

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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

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    5

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    130

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    ^A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine sand; single grain; loose; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 96P01433
    ^E—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) fine sand; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; massive; loose; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P01434
    ^Bw—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sand; massive; loose; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 fine to coarse roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P01435
    ^C1—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); 50 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) stratified stratified fine sand; massive; loose; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P01436. 10% bands 7.5YR 5/8.
    ^C2—74 to 102 centimeters (29.1 to 40.2 inches); 60 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 40 percent gray (10YR 5/1) stratified stratified fine sand; massive; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P01437