LOCATION ASKECKSY DE+NJ
Established Series
CDP/Rev. JAK
11/2015
ASKECKSY SERIES
MLRA(s): 149A, 153C, 153D
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
Depth Class: Very deep
Agricultural Drainage Class: Poorly drained
Index Surface Runoff: Negligible
Internal Free Water Occurance: Very shallow; common
Permeability: Rapid
Parent Material: Sandy alluvial and marine sediments
Slopes: 0 to 2 percent
MEAN Annual Air Temperature (type location): 56 degrees F.
MEAN Annual Precipitation (type location): 44 inches
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Siliceous, mesic Typic Psammaquents
TYPICAL PEDON: Askecksy loamy sand, on a smooth, 1 percent slope. (Colors are for a moist soil, unless noted.)
Ap--0 to 8 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), and dark gray (10YR 4/1) loamy sand, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) dry; weak medium and coarse granular structure; very friable; few medium and coarse roots and common fine roots; extremely acid; clear wavy boundary. (4 to 9 inches thick).
Cg1--8 to 13 inches; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loamy sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; few fine and medium roots; very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) stains on ped faces; few fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) iron masses with clear boundaries throughout; extremely acid; gradual wavy boundary.
Cg2--13 to 21 inches; light olive gray (5Y 6/2) fine sand; massive parting to weak medium subangular blocky; very friable; few fine and medium roots; few fine distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) iron masses with clear boundaries throughout; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary.
Cg3--21 to 25 inches; light gray to gray (10YR 6/1) and light gray (10YR 7/1) fine sand; massive; very friable; few fine roots; few fine distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) iron masses with clear boundaries throughout; very strongly acid; abrupt wavy boundary.
Cg4--25 to 29 inches; light olive gray (5Y 6/2) loamy fine sand; massive; very friable; few fine roots; common medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) iron masses with clear boundaries throughout and few fine distinct brown (10YR 5/3) and few fine faint gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions with clear boundary in the matrix; extremely acid; abrupt wavy boundary.
Cg5--29 to 51 inches; light olive gray (5Y 6/2) coarse sand; single grain; loose; 0.25 inch thick stratified bands of black (N 2/0) mineral grains; common medium distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) iron depletions with clear boundaries in the matrix; 5 percent, by volume, fine rounded gravel; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
Cg6--51 to 72 inches; gray (5Y 6/1) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; common medium faint light olive gray (5Y 6/2) iron depletions with clear boundaries in the matrix; 15 percent, by volume, fine rounded gravel; very strongly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Sussex County, Delaware; about 1,270 feet east and 500 feet north of the intersection of county roads 364 and 364A, in a wooded area in Assaowoman Bay State Wildlife Refuge; lat. 38 degrees 29 minutes 54 seconds N. and long. 75 degrees 06 minutes 07 seconds W.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Thickness of the Underlying Material: Greater than 72 inches
Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 60 inches
Depth to 2C horizon (if it occurs): More than 50 inches
Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: 0 to 12 inches, December to May
Rock Fragments: 0 to 5 percent, by volume in the A horizon and 0 to 20 percent in C horizon, mostly rounded quartz gravel
Electrical Conductivity (EC): 0 to 4 mmohs/cm in the A horizon and less than2 mmohs/cm in the horizon
Soil Reaction: Extremely acid to strongly acid, unless limes
RANGE OF INDIVIDUAL HORIZONS:
A or Ap horizon:
Color--hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 2 to 6, chroma of 1 or 2
Texture--loamy sand, loamy fine sand, or sand
Ab horizon (if it occurs):
Color--hue of 10YR or 5Y, value of 2 to 4, chroma of 1 to 4
Texture--loamy sand, loamy fine sand, or sand
Cg horizon:
Color--hue of 10YR to 5GY, value of 4 to 7, chroma of 1 or 2, or is neutral with value of 4 to 7
Texture--loamy sand, loamy fine sand, or fine to coarse sand
Redoximorphic Features--iron depletions in shades of olive, gray, or white and iron masses in shades of red, brown, yellow, or olive
2C horizon (if it occurs):
Color--lower in value and chroma than the overlying horizon
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--silt loam to sandy clay loam; commonly stratified with texture ranging from silty clay loam to coarse sand
Redoximorphic Features--iron depletions in shades of olive, gray, or white and iron masses in shades of red, brown, yellow, or olive
COMPETING SERIES: None
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Landscape: Coastal plain lowlands
Landform: Low-lying uplands, broad depressions, floodplains, and stream terraces
Elevation: 0 to 60 feet
Parent Material: Sandy alluvial and marine sediments
Mean Annual Air Temperature: 54 to 58 degrees F.
Mean Annual Precipitation: 43 to 46 inches
Frost Free Period: 175 to 200 days
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
Berryland soils--very poorly drained spodosol with an umbric epipedon, on similar landforms
Hammonton soils--moderately well drained with an argillic horizon and a coarse-loamy particle-size control section, on higher-lying positions
Hurlock soils--have an argillic horizon and a coarse-loamy particle-size control section, on low-lying uplands and depressions
Klej soils--somewhat poorly drained, on slightly higher-lying positions
Mullica soils--very poorly drained, have an umbric epipedon and a coarse-loamy particle-size control section, on similar landforms
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY:
Agricultural Drainage Class: Poorly drained
Index Surface Runoff: Negligible
Internal Free Water Occurance: Very shallow; common
Permeability: Rapid
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Some areas are cleared and used for growing corn, soybeans and small grain. Most cleared areas were drained with open ditch drainage systems during the first half of this century.
Dominant Vegetation: Wooded areas are dominantly red maple, sweet gum, white oak, willow oak, and loblolly pine. Understory is dominantly greenbriar, American holly, sweetbay, and lowbush blueberry.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: Coastal Plain of Delaware, New Jersey, and possibly Maryland
Extent: Moderate
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Morgantown, West Virginia
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Worcester County, MD, 1995
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and other diagnostic soil characteristics recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon--the zone from the surface of the soil to a depth of 8 inches (A horizon).
Aquic conditions--the zone from 8 inches to a depth of 80 inches is periodically saturated (endosaturation)
ADDITIONAL DATA:
SERIES DATA MAPUNIT: To be developed
SERIES INTERPRETATION RECORDS(s): DE0005
TABULAR SERIES DATA:
SOI-5 Soil Name Slope Airtemp FrFr/Seas Precip Elevation
DE0005 ASKECKSY 0- 2 55- 58 175-200 36- 55 2- 60
SOI-5 FloodL FloodH Watertable Kind Months Bedrock Hardness
DE0005 NONE RARE 0-1.0 APPARENT DEC-MAY >72
SOI-5 Depth Texture 3-Inch No-10 Clay% -CEC-
DE0005 0- 8 S LS FS 0- 0 98-100 1-10 1- 4
DE0005 0- 8 LFS 0- 0 98-100 5-12 1- 4
DE0005 8-51 S LS LFS 0- 0 98-100 1-10 1- 3
DE0005 51-72 COS S FS 0- 0 90-100 2- 5 0- 1
SOI-5 Depth -pH- O.M. Salin Permeab Shnk-Swll
DE0005 0- 8 3.8- 6.0 1.-5. 0- 0 6.0- 20 LOW
DE0005 0- 8 3.8- 6.0 1.-5. 0- 0 6.0- 20 LOW
DE0005 8-51 3.8- 6.0 .5-1. 0- 0 6.0- 20 LOW
DE0005 51-72 3.8- 6.0 .5-1. 0- 0 6.0- 25 LOW
National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.