IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rockaway
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014NJ037001
  • User Pedon ID: S2014NJ037001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2014NJ037001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0148
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79506
  • User Project ID: 2017, claimed
  • Project Name: MLRA 144A 149B - Soil Microbial Diversity in Urban Environments
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 41.1575000
  • Std. Longitude: -74.4469444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: This Rockaway soil was sampled in Waywayanda State Park in Suffolk Co., NJ.
  • Map Unit: RokC—Rockaway-Chatfield-Rock outcrop complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ037—Sussex
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NJ037—Sussex County, New Jersey
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41074-B4—Wawayanda, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lisa Krall, Olga Vargas, Fred Schoenagel, Marissa Theve
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Fragiudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockaway
  • PSC - 25 to 57 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/26/2015
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockaway
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 57 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/30/2014
  • Classifier - Fred Schoenagal
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy till derived from granite and gneiss
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/2014 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 23
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    BETH

    Acer saccharum

    Berberis thunbergii

    sugar maple

    Japanese barberry

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    57 - 80

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    fragipan

    fragic soil properties

    redox concentrations

    0—10

    10—57

    57—80

    57—80

    80—121

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    —47—

    —23—

    —23—

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    14

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    390.1

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    320

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) crushed, dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common medium roots throughout and moderately few fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-?-249 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 15N01293; observed in pit, small. coarse gravel
    BA—10 to 39 centimeters (3.9 to 15.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; gravelly loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 15N01294; observed in pit, small
    Bw—39 to 57 centimeters (15.4 to 22.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; few fine roots in cracks; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-?-249 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 15N01295; observed in pit, small
    Bx—57 to 80 centimeters (22.4 to 31.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) cobbly loam; strong medium platy structure; very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter marble fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 15N01296; observed in pit, small
    C1—80 to 121 centimeters (31.5 to 47.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; strong thick platy structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; very few fine roots throughout; 2 percent prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix and 5 percent faint light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 15N01297; observed in pit, small
    C2—121 to 130 centimeters (47.6 to 51.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; strong medium platy structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 15N01298; observed in pit, small. Friable consistance is discontinuous; stones are present below this horizon