IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Greenbelt
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006NY061005
  • User Pedon ID: S2006NY061005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0326
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18580
  • 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: 40.7679813
  • Std. Longitude: -73.9654340
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Millan House; 67 E 68 Hunter College
  • 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • 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 - 2/9/2006
  • 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: 2/9/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other shrub 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—13

    13—56

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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

    4.1

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    20.8

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    187

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    ^Au—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches);, 60 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 40 percent black (10YR 2/1), dry; loam; moderate thick platy, and moderate very thick platy structure; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 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 2-11-19 millimeter boiler slag; neutral, pH 7.2, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01725; observed in pit, small
    ^Bwu—13 to 56 centimeters (5.1 to 22.0 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very coarse roots and 0.5 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01726; observed in pit, small
    ^BA—56 to 102 centimeters (22.0 to 40.2 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, bromcresol green.; observed in pit, small
    ^BCu1—102 to 114 centimeters (40.2 to 44.9 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 8 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter boiler slag; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, phenol red.; observed in auger, bucket
    ^BCu2—114 to 135 centimeters (44.9 to 53.1 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; sandy loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter boiler slag; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red.; observed in auger, bucket