IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ipswich
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001NY081103
  • User Pedon ID: S2001NY081103
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0938
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13540
  • 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: 40.6259417
  • Std. Longitude: -73.8004556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: IwA—Ipswich mucky peat, 0 to 2 percent slopes, very frequently flooded
  • State: New York
  • County: NY081—Queens
  • MLRA: 149B—Long Island-Cape Cod Coastal Lowland
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40073-F7—Jamaica, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Gilbert and W. Hanna
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Euic, mesic Typic Sulfihemists
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 103
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ipswich
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/2/2012
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ipswich
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: organic material
  • Landscape: glaciated coastal plain
  • Landform: tidal marsh
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for very brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/16/2010 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • 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

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

    sulfidic materials

    hemic soil materials

    histic epipedon

    0—130

    0—130

    0—40

    —130—

    —130—

    —40—
    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

    0

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    0

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    60

    1143

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    Oe1—0 to 51 centimeters (0.0 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and brown (10YR 5/3) mucky peat; 3.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04950
    Oe2—51 to 102 centimeters (20.1 to 40.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) mucky peat; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual smooth boundary.
    Oe3—102 to 183 centimeters (40.2 to 72.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) and olive gray (5Y 4/2) mucky peat; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6.