IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chatfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999NY005004
  • User Pedon ID: S1999NY005004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999NY005004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0943
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12437
  • 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: 40.9013889
  • Std. Longitude: -73.8908333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Van Cortland Park, Bronx
  • Map Unit: CCD—Chatfield-Charlton complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes, very rocky
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New York
  • County: NY005—Bronx
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY005—Bronx County, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Luis A. Hernandez, Richard Pouyat
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chatfield
  • PSC - 25 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/26/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chatfield
  • Classificaton Date - 12/20/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till over gneiss
  • Landscape: glaciated upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: gneiss at 84cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/20/1999 (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

    CORNU

    QUAL

    QUVE

    Cornus

    Quercus alba

    Quercus velutina

    dogwood

    white oak

    black oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    84 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—13

    13—84

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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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    23.5

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P05673
    BA—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 9 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P05674
    Bw1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine to coarse roots; 7 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P05675
    Bw2—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 00P05676
    2R—84 centimeters (33.1 inches); bedrock; indurated; fragments. Gneiss bedrock.