IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Typic Udorthents
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NY061001
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NY061001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0305
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18559
  • 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: 40.7245832
  • Std. Longitude: -73.9890569
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: UFAl—Urban land-Flatbush complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes, low impervious surface
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40073-F8—Brooklyn, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard Shaw, Phil Smith, Lindsay Reinhardt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Typic Udorthents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/19/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: human-transported material
  • Anthropogenic Feature: fill
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—20

    —20—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    8/8/2005

    8/8/2005

    15

    30

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    —

    25

    24
    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

    1.1

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    10.4

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    95

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    ^Au1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; highly organic sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; soft; 5.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments; 1 percent by volume equidimensional subangular cohesive persistent nonpenetrable 20-47-74 millimeter boiler slag; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01674; observed in pit, small
    ^Au2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches);, dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; very artifactual loamy sand; weak medium granular structure; soft; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 very coarse roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments; 29 percent by volume equidimensional subangular cohesive persistent nonpenetrable 20-47-74 millimeter boiler slag; neutral, pH 6.8, phenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2^Cu1—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), dry; extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 15 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 69 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, phenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01675; observed in pit, small
    3^Cu2—51 to 89 centimeters (20.1 to 35.0 inches);, 60 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) and 40 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; extremely cobbly sand; single grain; loose; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 4 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 10 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 28 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, phenol red.; observed in pit, small