IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gravesend
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997NY081008
  • User Pedon ID: S1997NY081008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0067
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10340
  • User Project ID: 2018
  • Project Name: MLRA 144A 149B- Archive soil climate and water monitoring data
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 40.6470528
  • Std. Longitude: -73.8467611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Queens, Spring Creek Park.
  • Map Unit: GOB—Gravesend and Oldmill coarse sands, 0 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: New York
  • County: NY081—Queens
  • 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: NY081—Queens County, New York
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40073-E8—Coney Island, New York

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, methanogenic, mixed, hyperthermic Anthroportic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gravesend (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/21/2017
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gravesend
  • Classificaton Date - 1/30/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/30/1997 (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

    lithologic discontinuity

    artifacts

    0—20

    50—198

    50—198

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    1/30/1997

    1/30/1997

    10

    50

    hobo pendant ua-001

    hobo pendant ua-001

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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

    3

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    2.9

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    ^A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) coarse sand; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium and coarse roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P00477
    ^A2—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) coarse sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 2 percent by volume unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00478
    ^C—20 to 50 centimeters (7.9 to 19.7 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) coarse sand; 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) coarse distinct and 21 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) coarse faint mottles; massive; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00479
    2^Cu—50 to 198 centimeters (19.7 to 78.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) extremely cobbly-artifactual sand; 21 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) coarse distinct mottles; massive; loose, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; 10 percent by volume equidimensional subrounded cohesive persistent nonpenetrable rubber and 10 percent by volume flat very angular cohesive persistent nonpenetrable glass and 10 percent by volume equidimensional angular cohesive persistent nonpenetrable concrete and 10 percent by volume irregular very angular cohesive persistent nonpenetrable metal and 15 percent by volume flat cohesive nonpersistent penetrable cardboard.