IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hammonton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011DE001002
  • User Pedon ID: S2011DE001002
  • User Site Association ID: 3-HAM Benchmark Sampling MLRA Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N0026
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47532
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.0336000
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6419861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Kent County, DE; Norman Wilder Wildlife Management Area.
  • Map Unit: WddA—Woodstown sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, Northern Tidewater Area
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Delaware
  • County: DE001—Kent
  • MLRA: 153C—Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: DE001—Kent County, Delaware
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39075-A6—Marydel, Delaware

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Susan Demas, Katey Buckland
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hammonton
  • PSC - 17 to 67 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/8/2023
  • Classifier - Edwin Irizarry
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - thirteenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Woodstown
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludults
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • 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, shallow depression, drainageway
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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 - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 22
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—17

    17—59

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

    10/6/2011

    50

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    20
    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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    270

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    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine vesicular and 1.0 coarse tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-15-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00117; observed in pit, small
    Bt—17 to 59 centimeters (6.7 to 23.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular pores; 10 percent faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, clay films on tops of rock fragments; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-15-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00118; observed in pit, small
    BCtg—59 to 78 centimeters (23.2 to 30.7 inches); 70 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 30 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) stratified stratified sandy loam; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine vesicular pores; 12 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on tops of rock fragments; 15 percent coarse irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00119; observed in pit, small
    C1—78 to 175 centimeters (30.7 to 68.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) stratified stratified sandy loam; weak thin platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine vesicular pores; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses and 5 percent coarse irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses and 40 percent coarse irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 12N00120; observed in pit, small
    C2—175 to 200 centimeters (68.9 to 78.7 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) stratified stratified loamy sand; structureless massive; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout; 10 percent coarse irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions around rock fragments; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 5-15-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 12N00121; observed in pit, small