IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rockawalkin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010NJ011003
  • User Pedon ID: S2010NJ011003
  • User Site Association ID: 3-HAM Benchmark Sampling MLRA Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1318
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43254
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 39.2167139
  • Std. Longitude: -74.9643444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: This was a benchmark sampling site location within Cumberland County just west of Route 47 in the town of Maurice River. Sampling site was south of the State Prison area. 787 feet south-southwest of the intersections of Glade Road and Langley Road and 56 feet east of Langley Road in an abandoned crop field.
  • Map Unit: HboA—Hammonton sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ011—Cumberland
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NJ011—Cumberland County, New Jersey
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39074-B8—Heislerville, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Randy Riddle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, mesic Aquic Arenic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hammonton
  • PSC - 61 to 111 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/13/2015
  • Classifier - Rob Tunstead
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hammonton
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/13/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    0—26

    61—203

    61—123

    —26—

    —142—

    —62—
    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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    2.6

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    32

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    Ap1—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06293; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—11 to 26 centimeters (4.3 to 10.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine vesicular and 2.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06294; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    EB—26 to 61 centimeters (10.2 to 24.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 4.0 very fine vesicular and 1.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06295; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—61 to 85 centimeters (24.0 to 33.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry; sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 4.0 very fine vesicular and 2.0 fine interstitial pores; 2 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films and 15 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay bridges between sand grains; 2 percent medium distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron-manganese masses and 3 percent fine distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron-manganese masses and 5 percent fine faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; 2 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter quartzite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 5-15-20 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06296; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—85 to 105 centimeters (33.5 to 41.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loamy sand; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine vesicular and 1.0 medium interstitial and 2.0 fine vesicular pores; 2 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films and 5 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on rock fragments and 25 percent clay bridges; 2 percent medium prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 2 percent medium faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses and 3 percent fine prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 5-15-20 millimeter quartzite fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06297; moist when described; observed in pit, small. The Bt2 horizon does not meet the argillic horizon criteria as it missed the amount of clay needed by 0.1 of a percent (3.0 vs. 5.9% clay).
    BCt—105 to 123 centimeters (41.3 to 48.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine vesicular pores; 10 percent clay bridges; 5 percent medium prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 5 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses and 5 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06298; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Added the "t" suffix symbol per Mike Wilson's advice and as clay bridges were described in the sampled pedon.
    C1—123 to 147 centimeters (48.4 to 57.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) stratified stratified sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 fine interstitial pores; 2 percent medium faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses and 25 percent coarse faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses and 35 percent coarse prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 5 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-15-76 millimeter quartzite fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06299; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—147 to 203 centimeters (57.9 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 8 percent coarse distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses and 30 percent coarse prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 10 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-15-76 millimeter quartzite fragments. Lab sample # 10N06300; moist when described; observed in pit, small