IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Greenbelt
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006NY061007
  • User Pedon ID: S2006NY061007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0328
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18582
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.7632905
  • Std. Longitude: -73.9560784
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1230 York Ave (between 66th and 67th St)
  • Map Unit: UGBl—Urban land-Greenbelt complex, 3 to 8 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • 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 - 3/14/2006
  • 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: 3/14/2006 (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—3

    3—117

    —3—

    —114—
    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

    3

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    8.6

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    293

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    ^Au—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dry; highly organic sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter glass and 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter boiler slag; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01729; observed in pit, small
    ^BCu1—3 to 64 centimeters (1.2 to 25.2 inches);, 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 20 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter concrete; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01730; observed in pit, small
    ^BCu2—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), dry; stony sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.1 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 2 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments and 2 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 12 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 12 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter metal and 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter boiler slag; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01731; observed in pit, small
    ^BCu3—86 to 117 centimeters (33.9 to 46.1 inches);, 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 30 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; cobbly sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very coarse roots and 0.1 fine roots; 2 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 3 percent by volume nonflat 20-47-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 9 percent by volume nonflat 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter. Lab sample # 07N01732; observed in pit, small