IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ipswich
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008CT011001
  • User Pedon ID: S2008CT011001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0701
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20003
  • 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: 41.3362278
  • Std. Longitude: -71.8611361
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: New London County, Connecticut; town of Stonington, approximately 4,000 feet east of the Barn Island boat launch and 300 feet south of gravel dike road on the Watch Hill USGS topographic quadrangle; 41 degrees 20 minutes 22.4 seconds N., 71 degrees 52 minutes 14.6 seconds W.; NAD 83.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT011—New London
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT011—New London County, Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Parizek, D. Surabian, l. Krall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Euic, mesic Typic Sulfihemists
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ipswich
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ipswich
  • Taxonomic Class - Euic, mesic Typic Sulfihemists
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: herbaceous organic material over glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: coastal lowland
  • Landform: tidal marsh
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: parallel
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: very frequent flooding for very brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 365
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: flooded
  • Surface Water Depth: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    sulfidic materials

    aquic conditions

    fibric soil materials

    endosaturation

    hemic soil materials

    sapric soil materials

    reduced matrix

    —

    0—53

    0—29

    0—210

    29—115

    115—190

    190—210

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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

    0

    —

    —

    0

    —

    0

    1250

    —

    160

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    Oi—0 to 29 centimeters (0.0 to 11.4 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) reduced peat; massive; slightly fluid; very fine roots throughout and medium roots throughout and fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter, saturated paste; clear boundary.; wet, satiated when described; observed in push tube
    Oe1—29 to 80 centimeters (11.4 to 31.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) reduced mucky peat; massive; very fluid; very fine roots throughout and fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter, saturated paste; clear boundary.; wet, satiated when described; observed in push tube
    Oe2—80 to 115 centimeters (31.5 to 45.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) reduced mucky peat; massive; slightly fluid; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter, saturated paste; clear boundary.; wet, satiated when described; observed in push tube
    Oa1—115 to 130 centimeters (45.3 to 51.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) reduced muck; massive; very fluid; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter, saturated paste; clear boundary.; wet, satiated when described; observed in push tube
    Oa2—130 to 190 centimeters (51.2 to 74.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) reduced muck; massive; very fluid; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter, saturated paste; abrupt boundary.; wet, satiated when described; observed in push tube
    Cg—190 to 210 centimeters (74.8 to 82.7 inches); gray (N 5/0) reduced and dark gray (10YR 4/1) oxidized stratified stratified coarse sand to silt loam; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, pH meter, saturated paste.; wet, satiated when described; observed in auger, bucket