IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marshneck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005RI009014
  • User Pedon ID: S2005RI009014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0552
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17783
  • 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: 41.3800011
  • Std. Longitude: -71.6486130
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Ninigret Pond, Charleston, RI. NW corner of Fort Neck Cove (south of Ft. Ninigret). 1,644 feet south of the intersection of King Tom Dr. and Old Post Rd., 2,682 feet east of the intersection of Arnolda Round Rd. and Old Post Road
  • Map Unit: W—Water
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Rhode Island
  • County: RI009—Washington
  • MLRA: 149B—Long Island-Cape Cod Coastal Lowland
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: RI600—State of Rhode Island: Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, and Washington Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41071-D6—Carolina, Rhode Island

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Turenne, Mike Bradley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, subactive, nonacid, mesic Aeric Sulfiwassents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marshneck
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/9/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fort Neck
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Haplic Sulfiwassents
  • Classificaton Date - 10/27/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Lagoon Bottom silty estuarine deposits derived from mixed over silty loess derived from mixed over gravelly glaciofluvial deposits derived from igneous and metamorphic rock
  • Landform: shallow lagoon bottom
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 365
  • Geology: Coastal Lagoon formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/27/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: ponded
  • Surface Water Depth: 222
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - water 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

    n value > 0.7

    sulfidic materials

    aquic conditions

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

    reduced matrix

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—44

    0—44

    0—140

    0—178

    0—34

    0—64

    55—140

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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

    —

    —

    —

    -2.2

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    RI4266

    Kingston

    WETS
    A—0 to 34 centimeters (0.0 to 13.4 inches); silt loam; very fluid; fragments. Lab sample # 06N02283; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    C1—34 to 44 centimeters (13.4 to 17.3 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior mucky silt loam; 10 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 39 percent clay; structureless massive; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately fluid; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # 06N02284; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    C2—44 to 55 centimeters (17.3 to 21.7 inches); 90 percent black (5Y 2.5/2) interior and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 29 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 18 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; slightly fluid; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # 06N02285; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    2C3—55 to 64 centimeters (21.7 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior loam; 38 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 18 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; slightly fluid; 5 percent coarse distinct irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # 06N02286; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    3C4—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); variegated 60 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior sand; 90 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; 5 percent very coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-5-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # 06N02287; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    3C5—79 to 93 centimeters (31.1 to 36.6 inches); variegated brown (10YR 5/3) interior gravelly coarse sand; 98 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 0 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; 2 percent very coarse faint irregular noncoherent cemented masses of dark accumulation with clear boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-10-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # 06N02288; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    3C6—93 to 140 centimeters (36.6 to 55.1 inches); variegated dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior stratified stratified very gravelly coarse sand to sand; 97 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 76-80-80 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-10-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # 06N02289; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    3C7—140 to 178 centimeters (55.1 to 70.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior coarse sand; 98 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-15-30 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 06N02292; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube