IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berryland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011DE005002
  • User Pedon ID: S2011DE005002
  • User Site Association ID: 3-HAM Benchmark Sampling MLRA Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N0022
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47528
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 38.7253111
  • Std. Longitude: -75.3869444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sussex County, DE; Lang Tract; Redden State Forest.
  • Map Unit: MuA—Mullica-Berryland complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • 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-F6—Seaford West, Delaware

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Phil King
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Alaquods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berryland
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/21/2013
  • Classifier - Rob Tunstead
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mullica like
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, acid, mesic Typic Humaquepts
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: depression
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/2011 (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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    aquic conditions

    umbric epipedon

    spodic horizon

    0—200

    0—41

    18—41

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

    10/4/2011

    50

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    14
    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

    0.5

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    —

    13.7

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    270

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; mucky loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00093; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); black (5YR 2.5/1) mucky loamy sand; moderate very thick platy, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 4.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent medium prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, iron-manganese nodules throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, chlorophenol red; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00094; observed in pit, small
    Bg1—41 to 65 centimeters (16.1 to 25.6 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, iron-manganese nodules throughout and 12 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00095; observed in pit, small
    Bg2—65 to 92 centimeters (25.6 to 36.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00096; observed in pit, small
    Cg—92 to 200 centimeters (36.2 to 78.7 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/1) sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine vesicular and 2.0 very fine irregular and 1.0 medium tubular pores; 2 percent medium prominent irregular dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 8 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 12N00097; observed in pit, small