IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Greenbelt
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006NY061002
  • User Pedon ID: S2006NY061002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0323
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18577
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 40.7838855
  • Std. Longitude: -73.9579650
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1095 Fifth Ave
  • Map Unit: UtA—Urban land, till substratum, 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Greenbelt
  • 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 - Greenbelt
  • Classificaton Date - 1/30/2006
  • 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: 1/30/2006 (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

    cambic horizon

    0—17

    17—51

    —17—

    —34—
    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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    33.5

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    175

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    ^Au—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 0.1 very fine roots; 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01719; observed in pit, small
    ^Bwu1—17 to 33 centimeters (6.7 to 13.0 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments and 4 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2^Bwu2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches);, 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3^ABu1—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; highly organic loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter quartz fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01720; observed in pit, small
    4^ABu2—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches);, 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 40 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 20 percent black (10YR 2/1), dry; loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    4^Bwu3—86 to 119 centimeters (33.9 to 46.9 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), dry; loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter glass; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue.; observed in auger, bucket
    5^ABu3—119 to 135 centimeters (46.9 to 53.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter quartz fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue.; observed in auger, bucket