IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Greenbelt
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998NY085001
  • User Pedon ID: S1998NY085001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0357
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10628
  • 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: 40.5220083
  • Std. Longitude: -74.2415194
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in an open field adjacent to Arthur Kill River, south of the Outerbridge Crossing
  • Map Unit: GbB—Greenbelt 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: L.A. Hernandez, S. Siefried, R.B. Tunstead
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, spolic, mixed, active, 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 - Greenbelt (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/28/2017
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - GREENBELT
  • Classificaton Date - 4/20/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: non-artifactual loamy human-transported material
  • Anthropogenic Feature: loamy fill
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/20/1999 (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

    artifacts

    ochric epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—203

    0—76

    203—

    —203—

    —76—

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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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    1.6

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    ^A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-38-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P02100
    ^Bw1—13 to 41 centimeters (5.1 to 16.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume 2-38-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P02101. few coarse distinct gray (10YR 5/1) and few coarse distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) mottles inherited from transported parent material.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 647718; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 647718
    ^Bw2—41 to 76 centimeters (16.1 to 29.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and fine to coarse roots throughout; 1 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume 2-38-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P02102. few coarse distinct gray (10YR 5/1) and few coarse distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) mottles inherited from transported parent material.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 647719; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 647719
    ^C1—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) sandy loam; massive; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-38-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P02103. few coarse distinct gray (10YR 5/1) mottles inherited from transported parent material.
    ^C2—107 to 203 centimeters (42.1 to 79.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) loam; massive; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume 2-38-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P02104. few coarse prominent gray (10YR 5/1) and few coarse distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) mottles inherited from transported parent material.
    2Ab—203 centimeters (79.9 inches); fragments. sand.