IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Peckmantown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: NJ013-Peckmantown-004
  • User Pedon ID: S2000NJ013004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: NJ013-Peckmantown-004
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0330
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13295
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 40.8546371
  • Std. Longitude: -74.2402420
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Essex County, New Jersey; town of Cedar Grove, in the Essex County Hospital Center; 500 feet east of the parking lot in Fairview Ave. and 1000 feet south west of Winding Way.
  • Map Unit: PtoB—Peckmantown silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ013—Essex
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NJ013—Essex County, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: EM, RTL, FCS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Peckmantown
  • PSC - 38 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Peckmantown
  • Classificaton Date - 12/7/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty outwash derived from basalt, red sandstone, and granitic gneiss
  • Landscape: delta plain
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: flat
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: basalt
  • Geology: Glacial Lake Passaic formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/7/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIAB

    PIST

    PRSE2

    Picea abies

    Pinus strobus

    Prunus serotina

    Norway spruce

    eastern white pine

    black cherry

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    moderately coherent

    69 - 150

    38 - 81 - 81
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—20

    20—150

    69—102

    150—

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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

    5

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    109

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    150

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    A—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) highly organic silt loam; 44 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 6 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02030; observed in pit, small
    Ap—1 to 20 centimeters (0.4 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) highly organic loam; 44 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 9 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02031; observed in pit, small
    BAt—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; 41 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 11 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 6 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; very abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02032; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1091838; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091838
    Bt—36 to 69 centimeters (14.2 to 27.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 30 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 30 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 30 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02033; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1091839; continuous - phpvsfiid 1091840; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091839; continuous - phpvsfiid 1091840
    Btx1—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; 41 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 11 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate thick platy structure; firm; brittle; 1.0 coarse roots; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 30 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent black (N 2/), moist, manganese coatings in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02034; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1091836; continuous - phpvsfiid 1091836
    Btx2—94 to 102 centimeters (37.0 to 40.2 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 40 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; 41 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 6 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak thick platy, and moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak thick platy structure; firm; brittle; 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine vesicular pores; 30 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent black (N 2/), moist, manganese coatings in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02035; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1091837; continuous - phpvsfiid 1091837
    BCtx—102 to 150 centimeters (40.2 to 59.1 inches); 35 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 35 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 41 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak thick platy structure; firm; brittle; 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine vesicular pores; 10 percent faint , moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent black (N 2/), moist, manganese coatings in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02036; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1091835; continuous - phpvsfiid 1091835
    2C1—150 to 160 centimeters (59.1 to 63.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) gravelly loamy coarse sand; 79 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose; 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent prominent black (N 2/) iron-manganese masses around rock fragments; 4 percent by volume nonflat well rounded 21-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02037; observed in pit, small
    2C2—160 to 188 centimeters (63.0 to 74.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) gravelly coarse sand; 96 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose; 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded 21-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02038; observed in pit, small
    2C3—188 to 224 centimeters (74.0 to 88.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) coarse sand; 98 percent sand; 2 percent silt; single grain; loose; 10 percent by volume nonflat well rounded 6-15-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # 01N02039; observed in pit, small