IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Riverhead
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NY103003
  • User Pedon ID: 87NY103003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0425
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59720
  • Print Date: 5/16/2024

    • 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: 40.9594460
  • Std. Longitude: -72.7119446
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Cornell Hort Research Farm; About 1/4 mi S of Sound Ave. 40 yards W of prop line.
  • State: New York
  • County: NY103—Suffolk

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Riverhead
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/9/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Riverhead
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landform: dead ice moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1987 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—25

    25—81

    99—140

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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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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P2218. 5% gravel not greater than 75 mm. Part of Bw1 plowed into Ap.; common fine roots
    Bw—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior loamy coarse sand; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 87P2219. 3% gravel not greater than 75 mm.; few fine roots
    Bw—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.1 fine roots; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 87P2220. 3% gravel not greater than 75 mm. Pockets of fine sandy loam or very fine sandy loam.; very few fine roots
    BC—81 to 99 centimeters (31.9 to 39.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior sandy loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 87P2221. Pockets of sand.; common medium distinct 7.5YR58 mottles; few fine faint 10YR52 mottles
    2C—99 to 140 centimeters (39.0 to 55.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior gravelly loamy coarse sand; massive; firm; fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 87P2222. (10YR 6/3) lenses. 30% gravel 3% greater than 75 mm and 3% greater than 75 mm. Weakly stratified streaks of (10YR 6/6) are prom in places.