IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fortress
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999NY047003
  • User Pedon ID: S1999NY047003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999NY047003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0563
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11422
  • 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: 40.6042519
  • Std. Longitude: -73.8857498
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: (Rockwell GPS Receiver)
  • Map Unit: FoA—Fortress 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40073-E8—Coney Island, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L.A. Hernandez, R.B. Tunstead
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Aquic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fortress (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - FORTRESS
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy dredge spoils
  • Landscape: lowland
  • Anthropogenic Feature: dredged fill
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MOREL2

    Morella

    bayberry

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    artifacts

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—20

    0—165

    30—165

    122—165

    122—165

    —20—

    —165—

    —135—

    —81—

    —43—
    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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    2.5

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    ^A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) sand; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume 2-20-75 millimeter shell fragments fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03513
    ^Bw—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) stratified stratified sand; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent very fine faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 2-20-75 millimeter shell fragments fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03514
    ^C1—30 to 84 centimeters (11.8 to 33.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) stratified stratified sand; massive; very friable; 25 percent fine distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03515. 2 percent dark gray (5Y 4/1) masses of peat
    ^C2—84 to 122 centimeters (33.1 to 48.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) stratified stratified sand; massive; very friable; 10 percent fine distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03516. 2 percent dark gray (5Y 4/1) masses of peat
    ^Cg—122 to 165 centimeters (48.0 to 65.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) stratified stratified sand; massive; very friable; 10 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct gray (5Y 6/1) iron depletions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 99P03517. 5 percent dark gray (5Y 4/1) masses of peat