IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pishagqua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019NH017007
  • User Pedon ID: S2019NH017007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0201
  • User Project ID: 2022_ CZSS_done
  • Project Name: MLRA 144A - Great Bay, New Hampshire Subaqueous Soil Survey
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 43.0942778
  • Std. Longitude: -70.8531944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Welsh Cove
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH017—Strafford
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M.Vega, D.Parizek
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Fluventic Sulfiwassents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pishagqua
  • PSC - 0 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/27/2021
  • Classifier - Donald Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mesic Typic Sulfiwassents
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • PSC - 0 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/6/2019
  • Classifier - M.Vega
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Subaqueous Soils Information:
  • SAS Pipe Length Total - 457.2
  • SAS Pipe Length External - 246.8
  • SAS Pipe Length Unfilled - 277.3
  • SAS Core Settlement - 30.4
  • SAS Core Length - 179.8
  • SAS Core Storage Site - UNH Jackson Lab


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: estuarine deposits and/or glaciomarine deposits
  • Landscape: estuary
  • Landform: cove
  • Drainage Class: subaqueous
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot or Site Recorder - D.Parizek, M.Vega

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/6/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: D.Parizek, M.Vega
  • Surface Water Kind: permanent
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - water cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    sulfidic materials

    abrupt textural change

    0—154

    154—175

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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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    Ase—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); black (N 2.5/), broken face loam; very fluid; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N00756; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube. 30% H2O2 color change: Positive
    Cse1—9 to 21 centimeters (3.5 to 8.3 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) broken face silt loam; moderately fluid; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; strong sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 20N00757; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube. 30% H2O2 color change: Positive
    Cse2—21 to 70 centimeters (8.3 to 27.6 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) broken face silt loam; slightly fluid; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular 3-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 2 percent by volume wood fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 20N00758; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube. 30% H2O2 color change: Positive ; Plant fibers present
    Cse3—70 to 118 centimeters (27.6 to 46.5 inches); dark gray (N 4/), broken face silt loam; slightly fluid; fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 20N00759; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube. 30% H2O2 color change: Positive
    Cse4—118 to 154 centimeters (46.5 to 60.6 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) broken face very fine sandy loam; slightly fluid; 10 percent by volume wood fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderate sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 20N00760; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube. 30% H2O2 color change: Positive ; 30% H2O2 color change: Positive ; Wood fragment is suspected to be Hemlock
    2Cg—154 to 175 centimeters (60.6 to 68.9 inches); dark greenish gray (10Y 4/1) broken face silty clay; nonfluid; 10 percent very fine distinct olive (5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter. Lab sample # 20N00761; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube. Redoxomorphic features believed to have happened after the fact.