IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Walpole
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013RI009021
  • User Pedon ID: S2013RI009021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - URI
  • Lab Pedon # - URI130921
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 83030
  • User Project ID: 2017 ES, done
  • Project Name: MLRA 144A - Assessing Dynamic Soil Properties within an Ecological Site Framework - Subaerial to Subaqueous
  • 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: 41.4858710
  • Std. Longitude: -71.5689850
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Near Kingston Park behind baseball field
  • State: Rhode Island
  • County: RI009—Washington
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Andrew Paolucci
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: ecological site data
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Walpole
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/22/2017
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Walpole
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, mesic Fluvaquentic Humaquepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/2015
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: outwash
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: flood-plain step on outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/2015 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Andrew Paolucci
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    umbric epipedon

    redox concentrations

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    14—55

    14—35

    —18—

    —-

    —-

    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

    31.2

    1312

    10.1

    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) sandy loam; 66 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; many fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI1309211; observed in pit, small
    BAg—14 to 23 centimeters (5.5 to 9.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) gravelly loamy coarse sand; 84 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 1 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; 10 percent coarse faint irregular noncoherent cemented masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI1309212; observed in pit, small
    Bg—23 to 35 centimeters (9.1 to 13.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) gravelly loamy coarse sand; 86 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 2 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots throughout; 5 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 5 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI1309213; observed in pit, small
    Cg1—35 to 55 centimeters (13.8 to 21.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) gravelly coarse sand; 93 percent sand; 6 percent silt; structureless massive; very friable; 1 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI1309214; observed in pit, small
    Cg2—55 to 66 centimeters (21.7 to 26.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cg3—66 to 200 centimeters (26.0 to 78.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) very gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method.; observed in auger, bucket