IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hammonton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011DE005001
  • User Pedon ID: S2011DE005001
  • User Site Association ID: 3-HAM Benchmark Sampling MLRA Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N0021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47527
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 38.5840750
  • Std. Longitude: -75.4163528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sussex County, DE; Midlands Wildlife Management Area off Jones Store Road south of Hard Scrabble Road in a wildlife planting near overhead powerline.
  • Map Unit: HmAd—Hammonton loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes, Northern Tidewater Area
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Delaware
  • County: DE005—Sussex
  • MLRA: 153D—Northern Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: DE005—Sussex County, Delaware
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38075-E4—Trap Pond, Delaware

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Susan Demas
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, subactive, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hammonton
  • PSC - 70 to 120 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/10/2015
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hammonton
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/2011
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—13

    36—70

    70—120

    70—220

    —13—

    —34—

    —50—

    —150—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    10/3/2011

    50

    —

    20
    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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    —

    19.8

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, dry; loamy sand; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00085; observed in pit, small
    BE—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) fine sandy loam; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00086; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sandy loam; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent fine irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00087; observed in pit, small. Changed the horizonation based on the KSSL data as the horizon didn't meet an argillic.
    Bw2—51 to 70 centimeters (20.1 to 27.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout; 2.0 very fine vesicular pores; 5 percent medium irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses and 5 percent medium irregular light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00088; observed in pit, small. Changed the horizonation based on the KSSL data as the horizon didn't meet an argillic.
    BCtg1—70 to 78 centimeters (27.6 to 30.7 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/1) fine sandy loam; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout; 3 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses and 12 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00089; observed in pit, small. Changed the horizonation based on the KSSL data as the horizon met the definition of an argillic.
    BCtg2—78 to 120 centimeters (30.7 to 47.2 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/1) stratified stratified fine sandy loam; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron-manganese masses and 15 percent coarse irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00090; observed in pit, small. Changed the horizonation based on the KSSL data as the horizon met the definition of an argillic.
    Cg1—120 to 184 centimeters (47.2 to 72.4 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/1) stratified stratified sand to loamy sand to sandy loam; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 very fine vesicular pores; 5 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses and 8 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00091; observed in pit, small. Changed the horizonation based on the KSSL data and the horizon sequences above.
    Cg2—184 to 220 centimeters (72.4 to 86.6 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/1) stratified stratified fine sand; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 12N00092; observed in auger, bucket. Changed the horizonation based on the KSSL data and the horizon sequences above.