IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pishagqua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008RI009015-WP
  • User Pedon ID: S2008RI009015-WP
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - URI
  • Lab Pedon # - URI0815WP
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87595
  • 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: 41.3298278
  • Std. Longitude: -71.7952639
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Winnapaug Pond, Westerly, RI; Central basin, central pond
  • Map Unit: WPa1—Pishagqua silt loam, 1 to 2 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: Jim Turenne and Maggie Payne
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Fluventic Sulfiwassents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pishagqua
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Fluventic Sulfiwassents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/30/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty lagoonal deposits over organic material over sandy till
  • Landform: lagoon bottom
  • Drainage Class: subaqueous
  • Geology: Lagoon Bottom formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/30/2008 (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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    aquic conditions

    n value > 0.7

    reduced matrix

    sulfidic materials

    lithologic discontinuity

    sapric soil materials

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—200

    0—167

    0—200

    0—167

    167—180

    167—180

    180—200

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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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    -2.3

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    Ase—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (N 2.5/), silt loam; structureless massive; friable; very fluid; fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); sulfurous odor. Lab sample # RI0815WP1; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg1—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; very fluid; fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); sulfurous odor. Lab sample # RI0815WP2; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg2—48 to 57 centimeters (18.9 to 22.4 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) loamy fine sand; structureless massive; friable; nonfluid; 1 percent by volume 2-?-? millimeter shell fragments fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); sulfurous odor. Lab sample # RI0815WP3; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    ACse—57 to 83 centimeters (22.4 to 32.7 inches); black (N 2.5/), silt loam; structureless massive; friable; moderately fluid; fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); sulfurous odor. Lab sample # RI0815WP4; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg—83 to 92 centimeters (32.7 to 36.2 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; moderately fluid; fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); sulfurous odor. Lab sample # RI0815WP5; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    AC'se—92 to 110 centimeters (36.2 to 43.3 inches); very dark gray (N 3/), silt loam; structureless massive; friable; moderately fluid; fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); sulfurous odor. Lab sample # RI0815WP6; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    C'seg—110 to 135 centimeters (43.3 to 53.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; moderately fluid; fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); sulfurous odor. Lab sample # RI0815WP7; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    AC''se—135 to 145 centimeters (53.1 to 57.1 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; moderately fluid; fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); sulfurous odor. Lab sample # RI0815WP8; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    C''seg—145 to 157 centimeters (57.1 to 61.8 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; moderately fluid; fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); sulfurous odor. Lab sample # RI0815WP9; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    AC''se—157 to 167 centimeters (61.8 to 65.7 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; moderately fluid; fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); sulfurous odor. Lab sample # RI0815WP10; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    2Oase—167 to 180 centimeters (65.7 to 70.9 inches); black (N 2.5/), muck; fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); sulfurous odor. Lab sample # RI0815WP11; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    3Cseg—180 to 200 centimeters (70.9 to 78.7 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) gravelly loamy coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; nonfluid; 25 percent by volume subrounded 10-20-60 millimeter granite fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); sulfurous odor. Lab sample # RI0815WP12; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube