IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Westbrook
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: TLD surface
  • User Site ID: S2018RI009002
  • User Pedon ID: S2018RI009002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 19N0053
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 41.4531222
  • Std. Longitude: -71.4503139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Narrow River, thin layer deposition restoration site
  • Map Unit: Pw—Pawcatuck mucky peat, 0 to 2 percent slopes, very frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Rhode Island
  • County: RI009—Washington
  • 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: RI600—State of Rhode Island: Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, and Washington Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jacob Isleib, Milton Vega, Maggie Payne
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, euic, mesic Terric Haplofibrists
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.3b
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Westbrook
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, euic, mesic Terric Haplofibrists
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/5/2018
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy human-transported material over herbaceous organic material over loamy estuarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal lowland
  • Landform: thin layer deposition tidal marsh
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: very frequent flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2- to 75-millimeter shell fragments,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - culturally induced barren
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Tidal Period - outgoing
    • 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    ^Cse1

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    2Oiseb1

    2Oiseb2

    2Oeseb1

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    3CAse

    3Cse

    0

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    61

    93

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    145

    158

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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

    ^Cse1

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    2Oeseb1

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    3CAse

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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 %

    ^Cse1

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    2Oiseb1

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    2Oeseb1

    2Oeseb2

    3CAse

    3Cse

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

    aquic conditions

    sulfidic materials

    fibric soil materials

    hemic soil materials

    sapric soil materials

    0—196

    0—196

    30—61

    61—93

    93—145

    —196—

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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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    ^Cse1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); dark greenish gray (10Y 4/1) fine sand; moderate thin platy structure; nonfluid; 7 percent coarse prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron at top of horizon; fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; very abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N00281; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    ^Cse2—2 to 30 centimeters (0.8 to 11.8 inches); dark greenish gray (10Y 4/1) oxidized and dark gray (N 4/), reduced fine sand; structureless massive; nonfluid; fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N00282; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small
    2Oiseb1—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) rubbed peat; nonfluid; fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 19N00283; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small
    2Oiseb2—61 to 93 centimeters (24.0 to 36.6 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) rubbed peat; slightly fluid; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 19N00284; wet, satiated when described; observed in macaulay sampler
    2Oeseb1—93 to 117 centimeters (36.6 to 46.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face and black (10YR 2/1) rubbed mucky peat; slightly fluid; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 19N00285; wet, satiated when described; observed in macaulay sampler
    2Oeseb2—117 to 145 centimeters (46.1 to 57.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face and black (10YR 2/1) rubbed mucky peat; moderately fluid; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 19N00286; wet, satiated when described; observed in macaulay sampler
    3CAse—145 to 158 centimeters (57.1 to 62.2 inches); 60 percent very dark gray (5Y 3/1) and 40 percent black (10YR 2/1) sandy loam; massive; friable; nonfluid; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # 19N00287; wet, satiated when described; observed in macaulay sampler
    3Cse—158 to 196 centimeters (62.2 to 77.2 inches); 10Y 2.5/2 (10Y 2.5/2) sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; nonfluid; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 19N00288; wet, satiated when described; observed in macaulay sampler