IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paxton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999NY061001
  • User Pedon ID: S1999NY061001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32550
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 40.7686958
  • Std. Longitude: -73.9791946
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: CGHRC—Chatfield-Greenbelt-Hollis-Rock outcrop complex, 0 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: New York
  • County: NY061—New York
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY061—New York County, New York
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40073-G8—Central Park, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L.A. Hernandez, R. Burt, R.B. Tunstead
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Paxton
  • PSC - 25 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Paxton
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    bedrock, lithic

    noncoherent

    indurated

    86 - 157

    201 -

    - 71 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    densic contact

    densic materials

    aquic conditions

    lithic contact

    0—18

    5—86

    64—157

    86—

    86—157

    86—157

    201—

    —18—

    —81—

    —93—

    —-

    —71—

    —71—

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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

    6

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    36

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) highly organic loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P00001
    BA—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P00002. tubular pores throughout.
    Bw1—12 to 27 centimeters (4.7 to 10.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots and fine and medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00003
    Bw2—27 to 64 centimeters (10.6 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P00004
    2BC—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00005
    2Cd1—86 to 111 centimeters (33.9 to 43.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) sandy loam; 3 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium and coarse faint and 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium and coarse distinct mottles; massive; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 21 percent medium and coarse dark reddish gray (10R 3/1) manganese concretions; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00006
    2Cd2—111 to 157 centimeters (43.7 to 61.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; 21 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/3) medium and coarse distinct and 21 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) medium and coarse prominent mottles; massive; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 9 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P00007
    3R—201 centimeters (79.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.