IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mispillion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019NJ009001
  • User Pedon ID: S2019NJ009001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2019NJ009001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0417
  • User Project ID: 21-22-ham-CZSS
  • Project Name: MLRA 149A - 153D - CZSS - National Coastal Blue Carbon Assessment (NCBCA) Project
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 39.0512055
  • Std. Longitude: -74.7759511
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - PDOP: 2
  • Location Description: Located in a Pawcatuck-Transquaking complex mapunit on Ring Island and approximately 3,652 feet southwest of the Stove Harbor Blvd bridge over the intracoastal waterway and approximately 1,434 feet northwest of the Cul De Sac at the end of Golden Gate Drive in Stone Harbor, NJ and approximately 4,436 feet north of the Stone Harbor Bridge on Ocean Drive between Stove Harbor and North Wildwood, NJ.
  • Map Unit: PdwAv—Pawcatuck-Transquaking complex, 0 to 1 percent slopes, very frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ009—Cape May
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NJ009—Cape May County, New Jersey
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39074-A7—Stone Harbor, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Steinmann and Rob Tunstead
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, dysic, mesic Terric Sulfihemists
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Spreadsheet
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mispillion
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/29/2021
  • Classifier - David Steinmann
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bestpitch
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed, euic, mesic Terric Sulfihemists
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/20/2020
  • Classifier - Rob Tunstead
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1
  • Subaqueous Soils Information:
  • SAS Pipe Length External - 48
  • SAS Pipe Length Unfilled - 82
  • SAS Core Settlement - 34
  • SAS Core Length - 223
  • SAS Core Storage Site - Cape May - PMC
  • SAS Exposure Begin - 2/20/2020
  • SAS Exposure End - 2/20/2020


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: estuarine herbaceous organic material over fine-silty estuarine deposits over flood-tidal delta sandy lagoonal deposits
  • Landscape: estuary on coastal plain
  • 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
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 365
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA03_Raleigh) and NASIS Group Name (3-HAM Hammonton, NJ MSSO) was transferred to (MLRA12_Amherst) and (NE-HAM Hammonton, NJ MSSO) respectively to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/20/2020 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Rob Tunstead and David Steinmann
  • Surface Water Kind: flooded
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Tidal Period - incoming
  • Water Properties:
  • Water Temp - Upper - 18
  • Water pH - Upper - 6.7
  • Dissolved Oxygen - Upper - 3
  • Water Salinity - Upper - 33
    • 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Oise

    Oese1

    Oese2

    Cseg1

    Cseg2

    Cseg3

    2ACgb

    2Cg1

    2Cg2

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    53

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    20N02021

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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

    Oise

    Oese1

    Oese2

    Cseg1

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    2ACgb

    2Cg1

    2Cg2

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    74

    89

    137

    152

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    188

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    20N02021

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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 %

    Oise

    Oese1

    Oese2

    Cseg1

    Cseg2

    Cseg3

    2ACgb

    2Cg1

    2Cg2

    0

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    20N02021

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

    fibric soil materials

    aquic conditions

    histic epipedon

    sulfidic materials

    hemic soil materials

    n value > 0.7

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—29

    0—223

    0—74

    0—152

    29—74

    74—152

    152—223

    —29—

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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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    Oise—0 to 29 centimeters (0.0 to 11.4 inches); 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 40 percent dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) and 10 percent black (5Y 2.5/1) peat; many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; neutral, pH 7.2, pH indicator solutions; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N02021; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Oese1—29 to 53 centimeters (11.4 to 20.9 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) mucky peat; common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH indicator solutions; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N02022; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Oese2—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); 80 percent dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) and 20 percent dark greenish gray (10Y 3/1) mucky peat; common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N02023; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg1—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); dark greenish gray (10Y 3/1) silty clay; 30 percent clay; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately fluid; few medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 20N02024; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg2—89 to 137 centimeters (35.0 to 53.9 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately fluid; few medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N02025; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg3—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); dark greenish gray (10Y 3/1) clay loam; 43 percent clay; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately fluid; fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N02026; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    2ACgb—152 to 164 centimeters (59.8 to 64.6 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) fine sand; nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; none odor; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 20N02027; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    2Cg1—164 to 188 centimeters (64.6 to 74.0 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) stratified stratified fine sand; nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 20N02028; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    2Cg2—188 to 223 centimeters (74.0 to 87.8 inches); 70 percent dark gray (5Y 4/1) and 30 percent dark gray (N 4/), stratified stratified fine sand; nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 20N02029; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube