IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bestpitch
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020NJ005021
  • User Pedon ID: S2020NJ005021
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2020NJ005021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0646
  • User Project ID: 23-22-21-ham-CZSS_DSP
  • Project Name: MLRA 153D - CZSS DSP - Ocean County, NJ Tidal Marsh Update - EPA RARE (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: 39.5637776
  • Std. Longitude: -74.4186300
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - PDOP: 2
  • Location Description: Located in a Transquaking peat, 0 to 1 percent slopes, very frequently flooded mapunit along the Ballanger Creek and approxmiately 2,419 feet north of the channel in the middle of the Mullica River, and approximately 2,574 feet south of the mouth of Mathis Thorofare at the intersection of Ballanger Creek, and approxmiately 1.3 miles southeast of the center of Oak Island in the Mullica River Estuary.
  • Map Unit: TrkAv—Transquaking mucky peat, 0 to 1 percent slopes, very frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ005—Burlington
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NJ005—Burlington County, New Jersey
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39074-E4—New Gretna, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Steinmann, Jeanette Myers, and Rob Tunstead
  • 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: Spreadsheet
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bestpitch
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/2021
  • Classifier - David Steinmann
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mispillion
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, euic, mesic Terric Sulfihemists
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2020
  • 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
  • Subaqueous Soils Information:
  • SAS Pipe Length External - 27
  • SAS Pipe Length Unfilled - 82
  • SAS Core Settlement - 55
  • SAS Core Length - 238
  • SAS Core Storage Site - Cape May - PMC
  • SAS Exposure Begin - 8/12/2020
  • SAS Exposure End - 8/12/2020


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: herbaceous organic material over fine-silty 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: 6/10/2020 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: David Steinmann, Jeanette Myers, 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 - 16
  • Water pH - Upper - 2.5
  • Dissolved Oxygen - Upper - 0
  • Water Salinity - Upper - 22
    • 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

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    Oase

    Cseg1

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    Cseg3

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    34

    74

    103

    149

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    224

    20N02885

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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

    Oase

    Cseg1

    Cseg2

    Cseg3

    0

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    34

    74

    103

    149

    187

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    224

    20N02885

    20N02886

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    20N02888

    20N02889

    20N02890

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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

    Oase

    Cseg1

    Cseg2

    Cseg3

    0

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    34

    74

    103

    149

    187

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    74

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    149

    187

    224

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    20N02888

    20N02889

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

    fibric soil materials

    sulfidic materials

    hemic soil materials

    sapric soil materials

    n value > 0.7

    0—15

    0—224

    15—74

    74—103

    103—224

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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
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    Oise—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) peat; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments; none odor; reduced monosulfides present; effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.2, pH indicator solutions; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N02885; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Oese1—15 to 34 centimeters (5.9 to 13.4 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) mucky peat; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH indicator solutions; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N02886; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Oese2—34 to 74 centimeters (13.4 to 29.1 inches); black (5Y 2.5/2) mucky peat; common very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N02887; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Oase—74 to 103 centimeters (29.1 to 40.6 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1) muck; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; noneffervescent, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N02888; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg1—103 to 149 centimeters (40.6 to 58.7 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) silty clay; moderately sticky, slightly plastic; very fluid; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 20N02889; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg2—149 to 187 centimeters (58.7 to 73.6 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) silty clay; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fluid; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 20N02890; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube
    Cseg3—187 to 224 centimeters (73.6 to 88.2 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) silty clay; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fluid; fragments; strong sulfurous odor; noneffervescent, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 20N02891; moist when described; observed in vibracore tube