IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Greatkills
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995NY085006
  • User Pedon ID: S1995NY085006
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0167
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68245
  • 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: 40.5708351
  • Std. Longitude: -74.1667938
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Unregulated landfill. N 6 degrees E to center of Backstar, 250 yards.
  • Map Unit: GrB—Greatkills gravelly sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: New York
  • County: NY085—Richmond
  • 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: NY085—Richmond County, New York
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40074-E2—Arthur Kill, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Carlisle, John Galbraith
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, methanogenic, mixed, superactive, nonacid, hyperthermic Anthropic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Greatkills (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/21/2017
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Greatkills
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy human-transported material over unlined municipal refuse
  • Anthropogenic Feature: loamy fill on unlined sanitary landfill
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3-45
  • 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

    artifacts

    cambic horizon

    0—5

    0—508

    5—18

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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

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    5.9

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    270

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    ^A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) gravelly sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 5.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 27 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P01361
    ^Bw—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) very gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P01362
    ^BCu—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) very gravelly-artifactual sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; 5 percent by volume flat very angular cohesive persistent nonpenetrable 2-11-19 millimeter glass; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P01363. 5% glass shards.
    2^Cu—30 to 508 centimeters (11.8 to 200.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) extremely cobbly-artifactual sandy loam; massive; friable; 0.5 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; 2 percent by volume persistent 75-162-249 millimeter concrete and 3 percent by volume persistent 75-162-249 millimeter brick and 10 percent by volume nonpersistent 75-162-249 millimeter paper and 10 percent by volume persistent 75-162-249 millimeter metal and 15 percent by volume persistent 75-162-249 millimeter glass and 15 percent by volume persistent 75-162-249 millimeter plastic. Plastic 5%; glass bottles 15%; ass plastic 10%; metal 10%; rock cobbles 5%; brick and concrete 5%; paper, rubber, pipes, baby parts, wood, rug fragments 10%.