IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fort Neck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008RI009011-QP
  • User Pedon ID: S2008RI009011-QP
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - URI
  • Lab Pedon # - URI0811QP
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82988
  • 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: 41.3426111
  • Std. Longitude: -71.7182250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: WPa2—Pishagqua silt loam, 2 to 3 meter water depth
  • State: Rhode Island
  • County: RI009—Washington
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • 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: Maggie Payne
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, aniso, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Haplic Sulfiwassents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • 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 Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fort Neck
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Sulfiwassents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/20/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy lagoonal deposits over fine-loamy loess over sandy and gravelly ablation till
  • Landform: lagoon bottom
  • Drainage Class: subaqueous
  • Geology: Lagoon Bottom formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/20/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - water cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Ase

    ACse

    C

    2Cse

    3Cg1

    3Cg2

    0

    27

    52

    76

    100

    126

    27

    52

    76

    100

    126

    168

    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Ase

    ACse

    C

    2Cse

    3Cg1

    3Cg2

    0

    27

    52

    76

    100

    126

    27

    52

    76

    100

    126

    168

    3.2

    2.7

    6.5

    3.7

    4.3

    7.5

    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Ase

    ACse

    C

    2Cse

    3Cg1

    3Cg2

    0

    27

    52

    76

    100

    126

    27

    52

    76

    100

    126

    168

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

    aquic conditions

    reduced matrix

    sulfidic materials

    n value > 0.7

    sulfidic materials

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—168

    0—168

    0—52

    0—52

    76—100

    76—100

    100—168

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    Ase—0 to 27 centimeters (0.0 to 10.6 inches); black (N 2.5/), silt loam; 45 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 10 percent clay; structureless massive; friable; moderately fluid; fragments; reduced monosulfides present; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0811QP1; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    ACse—27 to 52 centimeters (10.6 to 20.5 inches); greenish black (10Y 2.5/1) silt loam; 22 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 17 percent clay; structureless massive; friable; moderately fluid; fragments; reduced monosulfides present; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0811QP2; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    C—52 to 76 centimeters (20.5 to 29.9 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1) loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 20 percent silt; structureless massive; friable; nonfluid; 5 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 5-28-50 millimeter shell fragments fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # RI0811QP3; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    2Cse—76 to 100 centimeters (29.9 to 39.4 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; 40 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 2 percent clay; 25 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) coarse distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; nonfluid; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 5-20-75 millimeter granite fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0811QP4; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    3Cg1—100 to 126 centimeters (39.4 to 49.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) medium gravelly loamy coarse sand; 80 percent sand; 20 percent silt; structureless single grain; loose; nonfluid; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 5-15-20 millimeter granite fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0811QP5; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    3Cg2—126 to 168 centimeters (49.6 to 66.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) coarse gravelly loamy sand; 83 percent sand; 17 percent silt; structureless single grain; loose; nonfluid; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular 20-45-70 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter. Lab sample # RI0811QP6; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube