IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Scarboro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013RI009022
  • User Pedon ID: S2013RI009022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - URI
  • Lab Pedon # - URI130922
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 83031
  • User Project ID: 2017 ES, done
  • Project Name: MLRA 144A - Assessing Dynamic Soil Properties within an Ecological Site Framework - Subaerial to Subaqueous
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 41.5113380
  • Std. Longitude: -71.6417060
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Off Hillsdale Rd
  • 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-skeletal, mixed, mesic Histic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: ecological site data
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Scarboro
  • PSC - 46 to 121 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 - Scarboro
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Histic Humaquepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 46 to 121 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: glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: flood plain on glacial drainage channel
  • 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: very poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Ponding: frequent 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

    histic epipedon

    umbric epipedon

    0—21

    21—47

    —21—

    —26—
    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

    —

    —

    41.2

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    1279

    —

    —

    9.9

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    Oa1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) muck; many very fine roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI1309221; observed in pit, small
    Oa2—4 to 21 centimeters (1.6 to 8.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) muck; many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI1309222; observed in pit, small
    A—21 to 47 centimeters (8.3 to 18.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) mucky sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; few fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI1309223; observed in pit, small
    Cg—47 to 200 centimeters (18.5 to 78.7 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) very gravelly coarse sand; 97 percent sand; 3 percent silt; structureless single grain; loose; 40 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. Lab sample # RI1309224; observed in auger, bucket