IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bridgehampton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008-RI009-020-Bridgehampton
  • User Pedon ID: S2008RI009020
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008-RI009-020-Bridgeham
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0529
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24060
  • 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: 41.4798927
  • Std. Longitude: -71.5501862
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Kingston, RI, 170 feet east of route 110 and 920 feet south of intersection of 110 and 138. Peckham Farm, URI. Group pit 1 for national soil judging competition. North of access road to sod fields.
  • Map Unit: BhB—Bridgehampton silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • 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-D5—Kingston (digital), Rhode Island

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Turenne and Shawn McVey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bridgehampton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/20/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bridgehampton
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/10/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy loess derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock over gravelly glaciofluvial deposits derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Esmond Igneous Suite formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/10/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUAL

    VACO

    Quercus alba

    Vaccinium corymbosum

    white oak

    highbush blueberry

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    abrupt textural change

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—11

    11—63

    63—121

    63—121

    121—

    121—

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    6/10/2008

    50

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    10
    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

    —

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    32

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    0

    —

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    147

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    RI4266

    Kingston

    WETS
    Oe—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) moderately decomposed plant material; ; ; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03447; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A—6 to 11 centimeters (2.4 to 4.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03448; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw1—11 to 40 centimeters (4.3 to 15.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume granite fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03449; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw2—40 to 63 centimeters (15.7 to 24.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 medium and 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent by volume granite fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03450; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BC1—63 to 92 centimeters (24.8 to 36.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent fine grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron in matrix and 1 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume granite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03451; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BC2—92 to 121 centimeters (36.2 to 47.6 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 40 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 2 percent fine noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron in matrix and 5 percent fine noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 08N03452; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2C—121 to 200 centimeters (47.6 to 78.7 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) stratified stratified gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded mixed fragments. Lab sample # 08N03453; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry