IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paulins Kill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014NJ037002
  • User Pedon ID: S2014NJ037002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2014NJ037002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0064
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79504
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024
  • 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: 41.0763270
  • Std. Longitude: -74.7857590
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Paulins Kill River Wildlife Management Area
  • Map Unit: HdxBb—Hazen-Hoosic complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ037—Sussex
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NJ037—Sussex County, New Jersey
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41074-A7—Newton West, New Jersey
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jacob Isleib and Marissa Theve
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC 6.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Paulins Kill
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/28/2015
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hoosic
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2014
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian-influenced loamy glaciofluvial deposits over sandy and gravelly glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landform: kame terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/29/2014 (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
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACER

    ASTER

    CIRSI

    DACA6

    DACTY

    GALIU

    ROMU

    RUBUS

    SOLID

    VICIA

    Acer

    Aster

    Cirsium

    Daucus carota

    Dactylis

    Galium

    Rosa multiflora

    Rubus

    Solidago

    Vicia

    maple

    aster

    thistle

    Queen Anne's lace

    orchardgrass

    bedstraw

    multiflora rose

    blackberry

    goldenrod

    vetch

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—28

    28—44

    —28—

    —16—

    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

    2

    153

    277

    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-10-20 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-5-20 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 20-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N00694; observed in pit, small
    A2—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-5-20 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 8 percent by volume flat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-10-20 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 20-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N00695; observed in pit, small
    Bw—28 to 44 centimeters (11.0 to 17.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-5-20 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume flat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-10-20 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 20-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N00696; observed in pit, small
    BC—44 to 54 centimeters (17.3 to 21.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; structureless massive; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent medium prominent iron-manganese masses around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-5-20 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume flat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-10-20 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 20-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N00697; observed in pit, small
    C1—54 to 74 centimeters (21.3 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) extremely gravelly coarse sand; structureless massive; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent medium prominent iron-manganese masses around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-5-20 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume flat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-10-20 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 20-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N00698; observed in pit, small
    C2—74 to 105 centimeters (29.1 to 41.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) stratified stratified extremely gravelly coarse sand to extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; structureless massive; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent medium prominent iron-manganese masses around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-5-20 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume flat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-10-20 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 20-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 15N00699; observed in pit, small