IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fort Neck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008RI009020-WP
  • User Pedon ID: S2008RI009020-WP
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - URI
  • Lab Pedon # - URI0820WP
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87754
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 41.3381944
  • Std. Longitude: -71.7790139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Winnapaug Pond, Westerly, RI. Northeast cove.
  • Map Unit: WFn1—Fort Neck 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, superactive, nonacid, mesic Haplic Sulfiwassents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • 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 Haplic Sulfiwassents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • 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 coarse-loamy glaciofluvial deposits derived from granite
  • Landform: cove (water)
  • Drainage Class: subaqueous
  • Geology: Drowned River Valley formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/2/2008 (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

    reduced matrix

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—67

    0—24

    24—67

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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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    Ag—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; very fluid; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0820WP1; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cg—9 to 24 centimeters (3.5 to 9.4 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; moderately fluid; fragments; very abrupt boundary. Lab sample # RI0820WP2; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    2Ab—24 to 39 centimeters (9.4 to 15.4 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) stratified stratified sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; nonfluid; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-4-5 millimeter quartz fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # RI0820WP3; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    2Bw—39 to 53 centimeters (15.4 to 20.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; slightly fluid; 2 percent by volume nonflat well rounded 5-8-20 millimeter granite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-3-5 millimeter quartz fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0820WP4; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    2CBw—53 to 67 centimeters (20.9 to 26.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly loamy coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; nonfluid; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-80-250 millimeter granite fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-20-70 millimeter granite fragments. Lab sample # RI0820WP5; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube