IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sassafras
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985NJ033007
  • User Pedon ID: S1985NJ033007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0275
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58080
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 39.5533333
  • Std. Longitude: -75.3000031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 mi W of Friesburg on Friesburg-Remesterville Rd, 900 feet on the gravel entrance Rd to Whitesells gravel pit.
  • State: New Jersey
  • County: NJ033—Salem
  • MLRA: 149A—Northern Coastal Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chris Smith
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sassafras
  • PSC - 48 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/8/2014
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Downer
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, siliceous, mesic Typic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1985 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—48

    48—86

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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

    1

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    34

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    270

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior fine sandy loam; single grain; loose; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    E1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P01591
    E2—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt—48 to 86 centimeters (18.9 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 37 percent faint , moist, clay films between sand grains; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P01592. common clay films surface features between sand grains
    B/C—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01593
    2C—104 to 136 centimeters (40.9 to 53.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior gravelly loamy sand; single grain; loose; fragments. Loose pedisediment of the Bridgeton Formation.