IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NY061015
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NY061015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0319
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18573
  • 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: 40.7909379
  • Std. Longitude: -73.9409721
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2085 2nd Ave (at 108th Street)
  • Map Unit: ULAl—Urban land-Laguardia 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-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 #: 15
  • 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 Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Laguardia
  • Classificaton Date - 12/8/2005
  • 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: 12/8/2005 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—13

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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

    1.6

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    3.2

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    338

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    ^Au—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dry; loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter glass and 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter brick; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01705; observed in pit, small
    2^Bwu—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; sandy loam; 3 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) coarse prominent mottles; weak medium platy structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots and 0.5 roots; 3 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter coal fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat 5-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter brick and 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter concrete and 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter boiler slag and 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter concrete; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01706; observed in pit, small
    3^BCu—25 to 94 centimeters (9.8 to 37.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) extremely artifactual loamy coarse sand; weak medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 2 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 2-4-5 millimeter coal fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 5-39-75 millimeter coal fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat 5-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter boiler slag and 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter glass and 2 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter brick and 4 percent by volume 2-47-19 millimeter brick and 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter boiler slag and 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter brick; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, phenol red. Lab sample # 07N01707; observed in pit, small