IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bestpitch
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015NJ029020
  • User Pedon ID: S2015NJ029020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0290
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82562
  • User Project ID: 32-ham-CZSS
  • Project Name: MLRA 149A - 153D - Coastal Zone Soil Survey (CZSS) Update
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.6251194
  • Std. Longitude: -74.2634083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - PDOP: 2
  • Location Description: This was near a SET salt marsh site monitored by the BBP and Erin Reilly on Edwin B Forsythe NW Refuge property. The site was just west of Dinner Point Creek and in an OMWM'ed salt marsh.
  • Map Unit: AptAv—Appoquinimink-Transquaking-Mispillion complex, 0 to 1 percent slopes, very frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ029—Ocean
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NJ029—Ocean County, New Jersey
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39074-F3—West Creek, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rich Shaw, Rob Tunstead, Ron Taylor, Erin Reilly, and Ceili Pestalozzi
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, euic, mesic Terric Sulfihemists
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bestpitch
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/2018
  • Classifier - David Steinmann
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mispillion
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, euic, mesic Terric Sulfihemists
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/2015
  • Classifier - Rob Tunstead
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: herbaceous organic material over silty marine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: estuarine tidal marsh
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: very frequent flooding for very brief periods
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 365
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: 52 - Emergent herbaceous saline wetlands—PRGAP Landcover Classes

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: RS, RT, ER, CP, and RT
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - yes
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 21
  • Tidal Period - outgoing
  • Water Properties:
  • Water Temp - Upper - 20
  • Water Salinity - Upper - 25.8
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Oe

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    Oese1

    Oese2

    Cseg1

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    17

    26

    54

    90

    117

    149

    17

    26

    54

    90

    117

    149

    217

    16N01072

    16N01073

    16N01074

    16N01075

    16N01076

    16N01077

    16N01078

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    48.5

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    52

    66

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    64

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    5.5

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Oe

    Oise

    Oese1

    Oese2

    Cseg1

    Cseg2

    Cseg3

    0

    17

    26

    54

    90

    117

    149

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    149

    217

    16N01072

    16N01073

    16N01074

    16N01075

    16N01076

    16N01077

    16N01078

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    4.9

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Oe

    Oise

    Oese1

    Oese2

    Cseg1

    Cseg2

    Cseg3

    0

    17

    26

    54

    90

    117

    149

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    26

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    117

    149

    217

    16N01072

    16N01073

    16N01074

    16N01075

    16N01076

    16N01077

    16N01078

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

    hemic soil materials

    aquic conditions

    fibric soil materials

    sulfidic materials

    hemic soil materials

    0—17

    0—217

    17—26

    17—217

    26—90

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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

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    1167

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    12.4

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    NJ8899

    TUCKERTON 2 NE

    WETS
    Oe—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed mucky peat; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; fragments; 6.71 millisiemens of electrical conductivity; none odor; extremely acid, pH 3.9, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01072; moist when described; observed in pit, small. 50% unrubbed fibers; 33% rubbed fibers.
    Oise—17 to 26 centimeters (6.7 to 10.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed peat; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; fragments; 6.38 millisiemens of electrical conductivity; none odor; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01073; moist when described; observed in pit, small. 90% unrubbed fibers; 80% rubbed fibers.
    Oese1—26 to 54 centimeters (10.2 to 21.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) rubbed mucky peat; many very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; fragments; 4.95 millisiemens of electrical conductivity; strong sulfurous odor; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01074; moist when described; observed in pit, small. 50% unrubbed fibers; 30% rubbed fibers.
    Oese2—54 to 90 centimeters (21.3 to 35.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed mucky peat; common very fine roots throughout and few medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; fragments; 4.93 millisiemens of electrical conductivity; strong sulfurous odor; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01075; moist when described; observed in pit, small. 30% unrubbed fibers; 20% rubbed fibers.
    Cseg1—90 to 117 centimeters (35.4 to 46.1 inches); dark greenish gray (10Y 4/1) interior silty clay; 30 percent clay; structureless massive; moderately sticky, slightly plastic; very fluid; fragments; 4.83 millisiemens of electrical conductivity; strong sulfurous odor; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01076; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cseg2—117 to 149 centimeters (46.1 to 58.7 inches); 50 percent black (5Y 2.5/1) interior and 38 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior and 7 percent brown (10YR 4/3) interior and 5 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior silty clay; 25 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately fluid; fragments; 4.7 millisiemens of electrical conductivity; strong sulfurous odor; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01077; moist when described; observed in macaulay sampler. Several intact snail shells (forams) were observed in the macauley auger for this horizon.
    Cseg3—149 to 217 centimeters (58.7 to 85.4 inches); dark greenish gray (10Y 4/1) interior silty clay; 32 percent clay; structureless massive; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very fluid; fragments; 3.87 millisiemens of electrical conductivity; strong sulfurous odor; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 16N01078; moist when described; observed in macaulay sampler