IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Foresthills
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006NY061010
  • User Pedon ID: S2006NY061010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0331
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18585
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 40.7451517
  • Std. Longitude: -73.9859879
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3 E. 29th St.
  • 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-F8—Brooklyn, 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: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Foresthills
  • PSC - 25 to 57 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/20/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Foresthills
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: human-transported material over till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: till plain
  • Anthropogenic Feature: fill
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/2/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    57 - 102

    - 45 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—20

    36—

    36—57

    57—

    57—102

    —20—

    —-

    —21—

    —-

    —45—
    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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    —

    12.2

    —

    98

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    ^Au1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches);, black (2.5Y 2.5/1), dry; highly organic fine sandy loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 medium roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments; 1 percent by volume 2-11-19 millimeter boiler slag; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01737; observed in pit, small
    ^Au2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; highly organic fine sandy loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 medium roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter glass and 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter brick; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01738; observed in pit, small
    ^BA—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches);, 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 25 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 15 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; gravelly sandy loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter coal fragments and 16 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter brick and 1 percent by volume 20-47-74 millimeter glass; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, phenol red. Lab sample # 07N01739; observed in pit, small
    2^C—30 to 36 centimeters (11.8 to 14.2 inches); channers; 100 percent by volume flat 2-76-150 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, phenol red.; observed in pit, small
    3BCb—36 to 57 centimeters (14.2 to 22.4 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, phenol red. Lab sample # 07N01740; observed in pit, small
    3Cd1—57 to 86 centimeters (22.4 to 33.9 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; loamy sand; massive; firm; brittle; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 07N01741; observed in pit, small
    3Cd2—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry; loamy sand; massive; firm; brittle; 11 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, phenol red. Lab sample # 07N01742; observed in pit, small