IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fort Neck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006RI009016-QP
  • User Pedon ID: S2006RI009016-QP
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - URI
  • Lab Pedon # - URI0616QP
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87710
  • 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: 41.3348389
  • Std. Longitude: -71.7488056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Quonochontaug Pond, Charlestown, RI, central in NW cover
  • Map Unit: WFn1—Fort Neck silt loam, 1 to 2 meter water depth
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Rhode Island
  • County: RI009—Washington
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • 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-C6—Quonochontaug, Rhode Island

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Turenne
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Sulfiwassents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fort Neck
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/4/2018
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fort Neck
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Haplowassents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lagoonal deposits and/or fine-silty lagoonal deposits
  • Landform: shallow lagoon bottom
  • Drainage Class: subaqueous
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 365
  • Geology: Lagoon Bottom Shallow formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent granite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/16/2007 (entry creation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - water cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Current Weather - overcast
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    aquic conditions

    reduced matrix

    n value > 0.7

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—85

    0—85

    0—11

    70—85

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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

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    -1.3

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    RI4266

    Kingston

    WETS
    A—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); silty clay loam; 18 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 32 percent clay; loose; very fluid; fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); none odor; neutral, pH 7.3, pH meter, saturated paste; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0616QP1; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Cse—11 to 47 centimeters (4.3 to 18.5 inches); black (5Y 2.5/2) very gravelly loam; 37 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 17 percent clay; structureless massive; loose; slightly fluid; 45 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-100 millimeter shell fragments fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); sulfurous odor; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter, saturated paste; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0616QP2; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Cg1—47 to 70 centimeters (18.5 to 27.6 inches); black (5Y 2.5/2) loam; 40 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 13 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable; slightly fluid; 1 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-20-75 millimeter shell fragments fragments; none odor; negative to alpha-alpha dipyridyl; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter, saturated paste; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0616QP3; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Cg2—70 to 85 centimeters (27.6 to 33.5 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 6 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable; nonfluid; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 5-20-30 millimeter shell fragments fragments; none odor; negative to alpha-alpha dipyridyl; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # RI0616QP4; moist when described; observed in push tube