IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Transquaking
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015NJ029025
  • User Pedon ID: S2015NJ029025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0292
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82564
  • User Project ID: 32-ham-CZSS
  • Project Name: MLRA 149A - 153D - Coastal Zone Soil Survey (CZSS) Update
  • 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: 40.0287750
  • Std. Longitude: -74.0809861
  • 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 and referred to as Reedy Creek site. The Reedy Creek salt marsh site is just north of Havens Cove and south of the Route 528 Mantoloking Bridge.
  • 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: 40074-A1—Point Pleasant, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rich Shaw, Rob Tunstead, Ron Taylor, Erin Reilly, and Ceili Pestalozzi
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Euic, mesic Typic 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 - Transquaking
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/20/2018
  • Classifier - David Steinmann
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Transquaking
  • Taxonomic Class - Euic, mesic Typic Sulfihemists
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/21/2015
  • 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 sandy fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: estuary
  • Landform: salt 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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/21/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: RS, RT, ER, RT, CP
  • 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 - 18
  • Tidal Period - outgoing
  • Water Properties:
  • Water Temp - Upper - 17
  • Water Salinity - Upper - 20.3
    • 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Oa

    Oe

    Oese

    Cseg

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    C'seg

    2Oaseb

    2Aseb

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    134

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    6.1
    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

    Oa

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    Oese

    Cseg

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    C'seg

    2Oaseb

    2Aseb

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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 %

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    Oese

    Cseg

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    C'seg

    2Oaseb

    2Aseb

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
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    histic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    sapric soil materials

    hemic soil materials

    sulfidic materials

    sulfidic materials

    hemic soil materials

    sapric soil materials

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—34

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    19—34

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    50—134

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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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    NJ8816

    TOMS RIVER

    WETS
    Oa—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) muck; very friable; common very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; fragments; none odor; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01085; observed in pit, small
    Oe—8 to 19 centimeters (3.1 to 7.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) mucky peat; very friable; many very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments; none odor; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01086; observed in pit, small
    Oese—19 to 34 centimeters (7.5 to 13.4 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) mucky peat; very friable; many very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01087; observed in pit, small
    Cseg—34 to 50 centimeters (13.4 to 19.7 inches); 45 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) and 37 percent very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) and 18 percent black (5Y 2.5/1) mucky silty clay loam; 40 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very fluid; many very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01088; observed in pit, small
    Oese1—50 to 113 centimeters (19.7 to 44.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) mucky peat; very friable; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; neutral, pH 7.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01089; observed in macaulay sampler
    Oese2—113 to 134 centimeters (44.5 to 52.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) mucky peat; very friable; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01090; observed in macaulay sampler
    C'seg—134 to 160 centimeters (52.8 to 63.0 inches); black (2.5Y 2.5/1) silty clay loam; 40 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very fluid; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01091; observed in macaulay sampler
    2Oaseb—160 to 176 centimeters (63.0 to 69.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) muck; very friable; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; neutral, pH 7.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01092; observed in macaulay sampler
    2Aseb—176 to 182 centimeters (69.3 to 71.7 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) loamy sand; 7 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 16N01093; observed in macaulay sampler