IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Napoli
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NY003016
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NY003016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0429
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17447
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 42.2661209
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7841873
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Alfred State College Farm; .25 miles up Sugar Hill Rd. from rt244, then west into field 500 feet.
  • Map Unit: 60C—Napoli silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New York
  • County: NY003—Allegany
  • MLRA: 140—Glaciated Allegheny Plateau and Catskill Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY003—Allegany County Area, New York
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42077-C7—Alfred, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matthew W. Havens, Steven E. Antes and Julie B. Miller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Aeric Fragiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Napoli
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Aeric Fragiaqualfs
  • PSC - 28 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Glacial till
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 67
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - rain
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    68 - 105

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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

    8

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    551.7

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; 12 percent by volume flat subangular 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N01665; observed in trench
    E—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); 50 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and 50 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume flat subangular 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01666; observed in trench
    Btg—38 to 68 centimeters (15.0 to 26.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; strong medium angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 90 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume flat subangular 2-75-200 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01667; observed in trench
    Btx—68 to 105 centimeters (26.8 to 41.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and gray (10YR 5/1) exterior channery silty clay loam; very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 15 percent medium distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses; 25 percent by volume flat subangular 2-100-200 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01668; observed in trench. 2 1/2 inch wide gray prisim steak from bottom of E horizon to the top of the C horizon
    C—105 to 182 centimeters (41.3 to 71.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) channery silty clay loam; structureless massive; firm; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses; 10 percent by volume flat subangular 150-200-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume flat subangular 2-100-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 06N01669; observed in trench