IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bestpitch
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015NJ029026
  • User Pedon ID: S2015NJ029026
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0293
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82565
  • User Project ID: 32-ham-CZSS
  • Project Name: MLRA 149A - 153D - Coastal Zone Soil Survey (CZSS) Update
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.6276306
  • Std. Longitude: -74.2570583
  • 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 Horse Point site. The Horse Point salt marsh site is very close to the West Creek salt marsh site we sampled and was site # S2015NJ029020. This site was not OMWM'ed and did not have that type of human manipulation / disturbance.
  • 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 - 3/20/2018
  • 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 - 10/22/2015
  • 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 fine-silty marine deposits
  • Landscape: estuary
  • Landform: salt marsh
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • 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: 10/22/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: RS, RT, ER, RT, and 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 - 19
  • Tidal Period - outgoing
  • Water Properties:
  • Water Temp - Upper - 17
  • Water Salinity - Upper - 37
    • 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Oi

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    Oese1

    Oese2

    Oese3

    Oese4

    Cseg1

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    41

    60

    87

    156

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    87

    156

    200

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    16N01098

    16N01099

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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

    Oi

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    Oese1

    Oese2

    Oese3

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    Cseg1

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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 %

    Oi

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    Oese1

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    Oese3

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    Cseg1

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

    histic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    fibric soil materials

    hemic soil materials

    sulfidic materials

    sulfidic materials

    0—40

    0—200

    0—24

    24—156

    33—60

    156—200

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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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    NJ8899

    TUCKERTON 2 NE

    WETS
    Oi—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) peat; fragments; none odor; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01094; observed in pit, small. Organic fiber content was 98% unrubbed and 85% rubbed. Very thick solid root mat and difficult to slice through making for a stable salt marsh platform.
    Oise—10 to 24 centimeters (3.9 to 9.4 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) peat; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01095; observed in pit, small. Organic fiber content was 95% unrubbed and 80% rubbed. Fibers are stronger than lower horizons and do not decompose on rubbing. Pockets of mineral material / areas in the horizon with lower fiber contents.
    Oese1—24 to 33 centimeters (9.4 to 13.0 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) mucky peat; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01096; observed in pit, small. Organic fiber content was 82% unrubbed and 40% rubbed. Upon opening the soil pit the horizon looked to be mineral material instead of organic material but upon closer examination was organic.
    Oese2—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); black (2.5Y 2.5/1) mucky peat; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01097; observed in pit, small. Organic fiber content was 78% unrubbed and 20% rubbed. This horizon was more black in color than the horizons above and the horizons below (more reduced).
    Oese3—41 to 60 centimeters (16.1 to 23.6 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) mucky peat; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01098; observed in pit, small. Organic fiber colors were red @ 7.5YR 4/6 and 4/4. Unrubbed fiber content was estimated at 40% and rubbed 25%. Roots or really the fibers in the horizon appear to be more oxidized but none seem to be living or all rub out.
    Oese4—60 to 87 centimeters (23.6 to 34.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) mucky peat; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01099; observed in pit, small. Organic fiber content was 60% unrubbed and 25% rubbed. There were pockets of higher fiber content in areas throughout the horizon vs other areas. This horizon was subsampled for KSSL as it was quite thick from 60-156 cm. Subsamples were from approximately 60-87 cm and from 87-156 cm. So 2 bulk bags will be sent to the KSSL.
    Cseg1—87 to 156 centimeters (34.3 to 61.4 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1) silty clay; 42 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very fluid; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; clear boundary. Lab sample # 16N01100; observed in macaulay sampler. Roots / fiber in the horizon were non-living. Estimated clay content was 42% and silty clay loam.
    Cseg2—156 to 200 centimeters (61.4 to 78.7 inches); greenish black (10Y 2.5/1) silty clay; 42 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very fluid; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 16N01101; observed in macaulay sampler. Horizon was not sampled for bulk bagging for KSSL and no Db clods taken either. Fiber content dropped off drastically. Estimated clay content was 42% and silty clay loam texture.