IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fortress
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014NY085001
  • User Pedon ID: S2014NY085001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2014NY085001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0149
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79507
  • User Project ID: 2017, claimed
  • Project Name: MLRA 144A 149B - Soil Microbial Diversity in Urban Environments
  • 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: 40.4984806
  • Std. Longitude: -74.2420750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Site located at Conferencehouse Park in Staton Island, NY.
  • Map Unit: FrA—Fortress fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: New York
  • County: NY085—Richmond
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY085—Richmond County, New York
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40074-E2—Arthur Kill, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lisa Krall, Olga Vargas, Marissa Theve
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy over loamy, dredgic, mixed, superactive, acid, mesic Anthroportic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fortress
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2015
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fortress
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Aquic Udipsamments
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/2011
  • Classifier - Rich Shaw
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: dredge spoils over estuarine deposits
  • Anthropogenic Feature: filled marshland, dredge spoil bank
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/2014 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Lisa Krall, Olga Vargas, Marissa Theve
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - culturally induced barren
  • 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

    ARVU

    ERYTH3

    PHAU7

    RUBUS

    SMILA2

    SOLID

    TORA2

    Artemisia vulgaris

    Erythronium

    Phragmites australis

    Rubus

    Smilax

    Solidago

    Toxicodendron radicans

    common wormwood

    fawnlily

    common reed

    blackberry

    greenbrier

    goldenrod

    eastern poison ivy

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

    ochric epipedon

    human-transported material

    redox concentrations

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    abrupt textural change

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—18

    0—77

    46—69

    46—

    58—

    69—

    73—150

    73—150

    73—

    73—

    77—

    111—150

    —18—

    —77—

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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

    0

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    1.5

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    180

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    ^A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed, dark gray (10YR 4/1) crushed, dry; highly organic loamy sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N01299; observed in pit, small
    ^AC—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) loamy coarse sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N01300; observed in pit, small
    ^C1—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 20-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 9 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 18 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N01301; observed in pit, small
    2^C2—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few fine roots throughout; 5 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist,; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N01302; observed in pit, small
    3^C3—58 to 69 centimeters (22.8 to 27.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) loamy fine sand; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist,; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 15N01303; observed in pit, small. redox and roots in sand lenses
    4^C4—69 to 73 centimeters (27.2 to 28.7 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) silt loam; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N01304; observed in pit, small. Thixotropic
    5^C5—73 to 77 centimeters (28.7 to 30.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; structureless massive; very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few fine roots throughout; 10 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist,; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N01305; observed in pit, small. Thin mucky sand coating below; concentrations on ped faces and roots
    6ABb—77 to 91 centimeters (30.3 to 35.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; many very fine dendritic tubular pores; 20 percent prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist,; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N01306; observed in pit, small. 10YR3/2—> 10% anoxic- root channels
    6Bwb1—91 to 111 centimeters (35.8 to 43.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few fine roots throughout; many fine dendritic tubular pores; 20 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist,; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N01307; observed in pit, small
    6Bwb2—111 to 150 centimeters (43.7 to 59.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout; few very fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, in matrix and 10 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 15N01308; observed in pit, small. gravels increasing with depth to 10%