IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wethersfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000NJ013005
  • User Pedon ID: S2000NJ013005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: NJ013-Boonton, red sandst
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0331
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13296
  • 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: 40.8509445
  • Std. Longitude: -74.1881409
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Alfonzo F. Bonzal Wildlife Preserve, Essex County; in wooded area approximately 340 feet southwest of Carline Dr.
  • Map Unit: BooBc—Boonton silt loam, red sandstone lowland, 0 to 8 percent slopes, extremely stony
  • 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: RKS, EM, FCS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wethersfield
  • PSC - 28 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wethersfield
  • Classificaton Date - 12/8/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy basal till derived from sandstone
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified
  • Geology: Passaic Basin formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subrounded
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/8/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    PRSE2

    QUCO2

    QURU

    QUVE

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus coccinea

    Quercus rubra

    Quercus velutina

    black cherry

    scarlet oak

    northern red oak

    black oak

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

    densic material

    moderately coherent

    69 - 211

    45 - 74 - 102
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic materials

    densic contact

    3—25

    25—170

    69—211

    69—

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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

    3

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    270

    109

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    150

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02040
    Oa—1 to 3 centimeters (0.4 to 1.2 inches); highly decomposed plant material; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02041
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/3) highly organic sandy loam; strong medium granular parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 8.0 fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02042
    BE—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 8.0 fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02043
    Bt—25 to 69 centimeters (9.8 to 27.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 10 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films on rock fragments; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02044. patchy - phpvsfiid 1091865; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091865
    Btd1—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak thick platy structure; firm; brittle; 15.0 fine vesicular pores; 60 percent prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 13 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 76-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 27 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 21-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02045. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1091863; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1091863
    Btd2—102 to 170 centimeters (40.2 to 66.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; moderate thick platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 20.0 medium vesicular pores; 60 percent prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 6 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 76-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 21-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02046, 01N02047. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1091862; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1091862
    BCtd—170 to 211 centimeters (66.9 to 83.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate thick platy structure; firm; brittle; 4.0 fine vesicular pores; 60 percent prominent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 76-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 21-50-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # 01N02048. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1091864; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1091864