IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fort Neck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009RI009011
  • User Pedon ID: S2009RI009011-PJ
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - URI
  • Lab Pedon # - URI0911PJ
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 83000
  • 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: 41.4069806
  • Std. Longitude: -71.5112000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Point Judith Pond, Turner Cove
  • 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-loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Haplic Sulfiwassents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • 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 Class - peraquic
  • 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 - 8/10/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy marine deposits over coarse-loamy till
  • Landform: mainland cove
  • Drainage Class: subaqueous
  • Geology: Mainland Cove formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/10/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - water cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    redox concentrations

    0—145

    0—83

    0—145

    0—83

    51—145

    92—145

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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
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    Ase1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); black (N 2.5/), silt loam; structureless massive; very friable; very fluid; fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0911PJ1; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Ase2—12 to 51 centimeters (4.7 to 20.1 inches); black (N 2.5/), silt loam; structureless massive; very friable; moderately fluid; fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); abrupt boundary. Lab sample # RI0911PJ2; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Ase—51 to 83 centimeters (20.1 to 32.7 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) mucky fine sandy loam; structureless massive; very friable; slightly fluid; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-20-75 millimeter granite fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); abrupt boundary. Lab sample # RI0911PJ3; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2BAse—83 to 92 centimeters (32.7 to 36.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) sandy loam; structureless massive; very friable; nonfluid; fragments; none of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0911PJ4; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Cg1—92 to 127 centimeters (36.2 to 50.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) sandy loam; structureless massive; very friable; nonfluid; 5 percent very coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-3-75 millimeter granite fragments; none of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0911PJ5; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Cg2—127 to 145 centimeters (50.0 to 57.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) fine sand; structureless massive; very friable; nonfluid; 40 percent very coarse prominent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 20-50-75 millimeter granite fragments; none of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon). Lab sample # RI0911PJ6; moist when described; observed in push tube