IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Verrazano
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998NY081001
  • User Pedon ID: S1998NY081001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0353
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10624
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.5633621
  • Std. Longitude: -73.8798904
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in front of Jacob Riis golf course
  • Map Unit: VzA—Verrazano sandy loam, 0 to 3 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

  • Describers Name: J.M. Galbraith, L.A. Hernandez, R.B. Tunstead
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, spolic, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Anthropic Udorthents
  • 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 - Verrazano (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2017
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - VERAZANO
  • Classificaton Date - 4/20/1998
  • 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 beach sand
  • Landscape: coastal lowland
  • Landform: dune
  • Anthropogenic Feature: fill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/20/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    anthropic epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—60

    60—

    —60—

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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

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    ^A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P02078
    ^Bw—8 to 42 centimeters (3.1 to 16.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P02079
    ^BC—42 to 60 centimeters (16.5 to 23.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P02080. few medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) mottles inherited from transported parent material.
    2C1—60 to 153 centimeters (23.6 to 60.2 inches); 95 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) and 5 percent reddish gray (5YR 5/2) sand; massive; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P02081
    2C2—153 to 200 centimeters (60.2 to 78.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) sand; massive; very friable; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P02082