IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NY061011
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NY061011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0315
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18569
  • 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: 40.8090336
  • Std. Longitude: -73.9412210
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4 W. 129th St.
  • Map Unit: UFA—Urban land-Flatbush complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • 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-G8—Central Park, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard Shaw, Phil Smith, Lindsay Reinhardt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • 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: 10/20/2005 (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 Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—19

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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

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    85

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    ^Au1—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; coarse sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat 5-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 4 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter concrete and 1 percent by volume 2-162-19 millimeter concrete and 1 percent by volume 2-47-19 millimeter brick and 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter brick and 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter brick; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01697; observed in pit, small
    ^Au2—6 to 19 centimeters (2.4 to 7.5 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; artifactual sandy loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter boiler slag and 1 percent by volume 2-47-19 millimeter bitumen (asphalt) and 4 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter concrete and 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter concrete and 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter brick and 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter brick; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, phenol red; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    ^Cu1—19 to 30 centimeters (7.5 to 11.8 inches);, 85 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 15 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2) and 5 percent white (10YR 8/1), dry; very artifactual loamy coarse sand; massive; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; 6 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter brick and 14 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter brick and 23 percent by volume 75-162-249 millimeter brick; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01698; observed in pit, small
    ^Cu2—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches);, 75 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 25 percent white (10YR 8/1), dry; extremely artifactual loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments; 14 percent by volume 75-162-249 millimeter untreated wood and 14 percent by volume 75-162-249 millimeter brick and 14 percent by volume 75-162-249 millimeter concrete; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, phenol red; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    ^Cu3—41 to 117 centimeters (16.1 to 46.1 inches);, 60 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 40 percent white (10YR 8/1), dry; artifactual loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments; 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter brick and 4 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter boiler slag and 22 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter concrete; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, phenol red.; observed in pit, small