IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Galestown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958NJ005002
  • User Pedon ID: S1958NJ005002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958NJ005002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0353
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32881
  • 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: 40.0488892
  • Std. Longitude: -74.9202805
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Burlington County, New Jersey. 3/4 mile north of US Highway No. 130 and north of Holiday Lake, 1 mile south of Beverly, 100 feet in woodlot west of blacktop road.
  • Map Unit: GabB—Galestown sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ005—Burlington
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NJ005—Burlington County, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N.A. Willits, K.P. Wilson, M.A. Hawkins.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Siliceous, mesic Psammentic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Galestown
  • PSC - 72 to 122 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/23/2015
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Galestown
  • PSC - 69 to 119 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CARYA

    COFL2

    FAGUS

    PIVI2

    QUAL

    QURU

    Carya

    Cornus florida

    Fagus

    Pinus virginiana

    Quercus alba

    Quercus rubra

    hybrid hickory

    flowering dogwood

    beech

    Virginia pine

    white oak

    northern red oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—72

    72—125

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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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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); 21.0 very fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; abrupt boundary. Not sampled; black (5YR 2/1) matted decayed leaves, hardly recognizable; mycelia present.
    A1—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.7, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02605. Clear clean quartz grains throughout.
    A2—6 to 16 centimeters (2.4 to 6.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02605. Fewer clean quartz grains than in A11.
    E—16 to 72 centimeters (6.3 to 28.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and brown (7.5YR 5/4) sand; single grain; loose; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02606
    Bt1—72 to 94 centimeters (28.3 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; loose; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02607. Slightly more fine than A2; slightly firmer in place than A2.
    Bt2—94 to 125 centimeters (37.0 to 49.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; clay bridges; 2-39-75 millimeter glauconite fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02608. Clay bridges in the firmer spots and in lamellae.
    C—125 to 155 centimeters (49.2 to 61.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) sand; single grain; loose; 3 percent by volume glauconite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A02609. Discontinuous lamellae with slightly more clay than the mass and yellowish red (5YR 4/6).