IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Matapeake
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985NJ033004
  • User Pedon ID: 85NJ033004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0764
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57030
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 39.5925361
  • Std. Longitude: -75.2384972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Salem County, NJ: 1 5/8 mi N of Shirley. 700 feet E of NJ77, 250 feet SE of power line.
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ033—Salem

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chris Smith and Carl Eby
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Matapeake
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Matapeake
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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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    1Ap—0 to 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; massive; friable; 5.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04025. Few scattered pebbles, very little coarse sand.; many roots
    1Bt1—22 to 43 centimeters (8.7 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04026. Very little coarse sand; widely spaced, 15 to 20 cm, vertically oriented surfaces extending through this horizon are coated in part with dark colored Ap material and in part with faint clay skins.; many roots
    1Bt2—43 to 85 centimeters (16.9 to 33.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 roots and 0.5 roots; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04027. Roots with concentration in lower part; no pebbles and very little coarse sand.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few roots; many roots
    1BC—85 to 108 centimeters (33.5 to 42.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior stratified sandy loam; massive; firm; 0.1 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04028. Stratified loamy sand, and gravelly loamy sand; non gravelly to gravelly; more coarse sand than above; in other parts of the pit there is some pale and some bright colored mottling associated with the top of this horizon.; very few roots
    2Bb—108 to 175 centimeters (42.5 to 68.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior stratified loamy sand; massive, and structureless single grain; loose, friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P04029. 3 to 5 cm layers of stratified gravelly loamy sand, sandy loam and loamy sand; concentration of lag gravel at about 123 cm forms a stone line around the pit.