IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Broadkill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019NJ011001
  • User Pedon ID: S2019NJ011001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2019NJ011001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0226
  • 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: 39.2442390
  • Std. Longitude: -75.0158780
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - PDOP: 2
  • Location Description: Located in a Pawcatuck - Transquaking complex mapunit within the Maurice River Estuary tidal marsh and approximately 2,500 feet east of the intersection of Main Street and Maurice Ave in Port Norris, NJ and approximately 4,000 feet west of the intersection of River Road and Menhaden Road in Leesburg, NJ and approximately 4,150 feet north of the boat ramp at Matts Landing, NJ.
  • Map Unit: PdwAv—Pawcatuck-Transquaking complex, 0 to 1 percent slopes, very frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ011—Cumberland
  • MLRA: 149A—Northern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NJ011—Cumberland County, New Jersey
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39075-B1—Port Norris, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Steinmann and Rob Tunstead
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Typic Sulfaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Spreadsheet
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Broadkill
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/28/2022
  • Classifier - David Steinmann
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Broadkill
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Typic Sulfaquents
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/4/2019
  • 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 - 25
  • SAS Pipe Length Unfilled - 82
  • SAS Core Settlement - 57
  • SAS Core Length - 181
  • SAS Core Storage Site - Cape May - PMC
  • SAS Exposure Begin - 12/5/2019
  • SAS Exposure End - 12/5/2019


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: herbaceous organic material over mineral clayey estuarine 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: 12/4/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: David Steinmann and Rob Tunstead
  • 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
  • Tidal Period - incoming
  • Water Properties:
  • Water Temp - Upper - 18
  • Water pH - Upper - 6.6
  • Dissolved Oxygen - Upper - 0
  • Water Salinity - Upper - 13
    • 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

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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

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

    sulfidic materials

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

    n value > 0.7

    0—172

    0—172

    0—18

    18—172

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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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    Aseg—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); greenish black (10Y 2.5/1) silty clay; common very coarse roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 20N00910; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); greenish black (10Y 2.5/1) silty clay; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very fluid; few very coarse roots throughout and few medium roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; reduced monosulfides present; effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH indicator solutions; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N00911; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg2—30 to 44 centimeters (11.8 to 17.3 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1) silty clay; very sticky, moderately plastic; very fluid; few medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N00912; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg3—44 to 86 centimeters (17.3 to 33.9 inches); 70 percent greenish black (5GY 2.5/1) and 30 percent very dark gray (N 3/), silty clay; very sticky, moderately plastic; slightly fluid; fragments; moderate sulfurous odor; effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH indicator solutions; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 20N00913; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg4—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); black (N 2.5/), clay; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately fluid; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH indicator solutions; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 20N00914; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg5—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1) clay; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately fluid; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH indicator solutions; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 20N00915; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg6—127 to 163 centimeters (50.0 to 64.2 inches); 90 percent greenish black (10Y 2.5/1) and 10 percent very dark gray (5Y 3/1) clay; moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderately fluid; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N00916; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg7—163 to 172 centimeters (64.2 to 67.7 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) clay; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately fluid; fragments; slight sulfurous odor; effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 20N00917; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube