IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dystric Eutrudepts
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NY061017
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NY061017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0321
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18575
  • 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: 40.8511773
  • Std. Longitude: -73.9293092
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2501 Amsterdam Ave (186th St & Washington Terrace)
  • Map Unit: UtB—Urban land, till substratum, 3 to 8 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: Mixed, mesic Typic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dystric Eutrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/19/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Greenbelt
  • Classificaton Date - 12/14/2005
  • 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: 12/14/2005 (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

    cambic horizon

    0—48

    48—71

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    —23—
    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

    7.3

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    59.2

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    80

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    ^Au1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), dry; highly organic sandy loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter plastic and 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter untreated wood; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01710; observed in pit, small
    ^Au2—8 to 33 centimeters (3.1 to 13.0 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 2 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter untreated wood and 1 percent by volume 20-11-74 millimeter boiler slag and 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter metal; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    ^ABu—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 3 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 3 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter glass and 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter brick and 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter metal and 3 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter potsherd and 3 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter concrete; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01711; observed in pit, small
    ^BAu—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches);, 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 4 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter quartz fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments; 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter boiler slag; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, phenol red.; observed in pit, small