RI009-2009-012-PJ
Submerged Mainland Beach; Point Judith Pond, Narragansett, RI
Pedon Description:
A --- 0 to 11 centimeters; black (2.5Y 2.5/1) moist, sand; massive;
friable; nonfluid; color change with peroxide; Field Measured
Properties: Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon) none.
AC --- 11 to 34 centimeters; dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) moist, sand;
massive; friable; nonfluid; 3 percent 2 to 3 millimeters granite
fragments and 5 percent shell fragments; no color change with
peroxide; Field Measured Properties: Odor (Exists in NASIS
Horizon) none.
2Oa --- 34 to 51 centimeters; very dark brown (10YR 2/2) moist,
muck; 3 percent 10 to 20 millimeters wood fragments; no color
change with peroxide, interpreted as fresh water cedar swamp
material and rubbed color 10yr 2/1; Field Measured Properties: Odor
(Exists in NASIS Horizon) none.
3Ab --- 51 to 56 centimeters; black (2.5Y 2.5/1) moist, silt loam;
massive; friable; nonfluid; no color change with peroxide; Field
Measured Properties: Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon) none.
3Bw --- 56 to 72 centimeters; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2)
moist, silt loam; massive; friable; nonfluid; no color change with
peroxide; Field Measured Properties: Odor (Exists in NASIS
Horizon) none.
3Cg1 --- 72 to 90 centimeters; dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) moist, silt loam;
massive; friable; nonfluid; medium prominent weakly cemented dark
yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron clear in
matrix; no color change with peroxide; Field Measured Properties:
Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon) none.
3Cg2 --- 90 to 118 centimeters; greenish gray (10Y 5/1) moist, silt
loam; massive; friable; nonfluid; no color change with peroxide;
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Field Measured Properties: Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon) none.
4Cg --- 118 to 146 centimeters; dark gray (5Y 4/1) moist, gravelly coarse sand; single
grain; loose; nonfluid; 35 percent subrounded 20 to 90 millimeters granite fragments; no
color change with peroxide and transition between 3Cg2 and 4Cg is 2 cm of sandier 5Y
4/2 color; Field Measured Properties: Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon) none.
Laboratory Data:
Horizon
A
AC
2Oa
3Ab
3Bw
3Cg1
3Cg2
4Cg
Horizon
A
AC
2Oa
3Ab
3Bw
3Cg1
3Cg2
4Cg
Horizon
Depth (cm)
0-11
11-34
34-51
51-56
56-72
72-90
90-118
118-146
Db
(g/cm3)
1.47
1.03
0.19
0.87
1.03
1.35
1.56
1.29
Horizon
Depth (cm)
0-11
11-34
34-51
51-56
56-72
72-90
90-118
118-146
%VCS
0.49
0.60
29.64
3.66
2.33
1.36
1.11
0.63
CaCO3
(%)
0.55
0.76
12.00
1.95
2.72
2.19
1.94
1.72
5:1 Sal
(ms)
1.61
1.91
6.06
2.96
2.27
1.63
1.48
0.84
%MS
%FS
%VFS
OM (%)
OC (%)
0.98
1.20
59.27
7.32
4.66
2.71
2.22
1.26
%CS
General Information
General Description:
Initial pH 1 Mo. pH 2 Mo. pH 3 Mo. pH
7.67
7.50
6.97
7.00
6.63
6.79
6.86
7.13
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
%Sand
%Silt
%Clay
Texture
sandy marine deposits over woody organic
material over fine-silty loess over sandy and
gravelly glaciofluvial deposits
Washington County, Rhode Island; Town of
Narragansett
Location Description:
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Describer:
Pedon ID:
Pedon Notes:
Lab Source ID:
Lab Pedon #:
Soil Name as Described/Sampled:
Soil Name as Correlated:
8/26/2009
M. Payne and J. Turenne
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Vibracore collected 8/6/2009, opened and
described 8/26/2009.
URI
RI009-2009-012-PJ
Submerged Mainland Beach
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Classification(10th edition):
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Typic Endoaquents
Typic Haplowassents - before labdata
-3
water cover
none
sandy marine deposits over woody organic
material over fine-silty loess over sandy and
gravelly glaciofluvial deposits
25 to 100 cm.
Reduced matrix: 0 to 146 centimeters
Aquic conditions: 0 to 146 centimeters
Sapric soil material: 34 to 51 centimeters
Lithologic discontinuity: 34 to 51 centimeters
Lithologic discontinuity: 51 to 118 centimeters
Redox concentrations: 77 to 90 centimeters
Lithologic discontinuity: 118 to 146 centimeters
United States
Rhode Island
WASHINGTON
144A - New England and Eastern New York
Upland, Southern Part
RI600 -- State of Rhode Island: Bristol, Kent,
Newport, Providence, and Washington Counties
Quonochontaug, Rhode Island
41°24’37.28945” north
71°29’55.55922” west
NAD83
19
291150.3E meters
4587325.69N meters
Atlantic Lowland
Coastal Plain
Embayed section
Point Judith Pond
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Location Map:
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