LOCATION BARCELONA NY
Established Series
Rev. PSP-WEH-SWF
05/2011
BARCELONA SERIES
The Barcelona series consists of deep, somewhat poorly drained soils formed in lacustrine sediments and the underlying till. They are on lake plains with bedrock at a depth of 40 to 60 inches. Slopes range from 0 to 8 percent. Mean annual temperature is 48 degrees F., and mean annual precipitation is 37 inches.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Aeric Endoaqualfs
TYPICAL PEDON: Barcelona silt loam on a 2 percent slope in a cultivated field. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise noted.)
Ap -- 0 to 9 inches; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) dry; moderate medium granular structure; friable; many fine roots; neutral; abrupt smooth boundary. (4 to 12 inches thick)
BEg -- 9 to 15 inches; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine roots; common fine pores; very few faint clay films lining pores in lower part; 2 percent channers; common medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) redoximorphic concentrations; slightly acid; clear wavy boundary. (4 to 11 inches)
Bt -- 15 to 29 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; gray (10YR 5/1) faces of peds; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few fine roots; common fine pores; common distinct clay films lining pores and on faces of peds; 2 percent channers; common medium distinct gray (10YR 5/1) redoximorphic depletions and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) redoximorphic concentrations; neutral; clear wavy boundary. (10 to 20 inches thick)
2BC -- 29 to 35 inches; brown (10YR 5/3) channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent channers; common medium distinct gray (10YR 5/1) redoximorphic depletions; neutral; clear wavy boundary. (0 to 10 inches thick)
2C -- 35 to 51 inches; brown (10YR 5/3) channery silt loam; massive; firm; 30 percent channers; slightly alkaline; abrupt smooth boundary. (10 to 20 inches thick)
3R -- 51 inches; dark rippable shale bedrock.
TYPE LOCATION: Chautauqua County, New York; Town of Sherdain, 1/4 mile west of junction of West Sherdain Road and Center Road, 20 feet south of West Sherdain Road; USGS Forestville, NY topographic quadrangle; Latitude 42 degrees, 29 minutes, 23 seconds N. and Longitude 79 degrees, 15 minutes, 00 seconds, W., NAD 1927.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Solum thickness ranges from 20 to 50 inches. Depth to rippable bedrock, typically shale and siltstone, ranges from 40 to 60 inches. Rock fragments, mainly channers or gravel, range from 0 to 5 percent by volume in the surface layer and upper part of the subsoil, and from 15 to 50 percent in the lower part of the subsoil and substratum.
The Ap horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 3 or 4, and chroma of 2 or 3. Texture is silt loam, very fine sandy loam or loam. Reaction ranges from moderately acid to neutral.
The BEg horizon has hue of 10YR through 5Y, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 1 or 2. Texture is silt loam, silty clay loam or very fine sandy loam. Structure is subangular blocky or platy. Consistence is friable or firm. Reaction ranges from moderately acid to slightly alkaline.
Some pedons have a BE or Eg horizon. The BE horizon has chroma of 3 through 5, and the Eg horizon has value of 5 or 6 and lacks patchy clay films. Texture is similar to the BEg horizon.
The Bt horizon has hue of 7.5YR through 5Y, value of 4 through 6, and chroma of 2 through 6. Texture is silt loam or silty clay loam. Structure is angular or subangular blocky. Consistence is friable or firm. Reaction ranges from moderately acid to slightly alkaline.
The 2BC horizon has hue of 10YR through 5Y, value of 4 through 6, and chroma of 1 through 6. Texture is silt loam, silty clay loam or loam in the fine-earth fraction. Structure is angular or subangular blocky, or platy. Consistence is friable or firm. Reaction ranges from moderately acid to slightly alkaline. A 2CB horizon is present in some pedons.
The 2C horizon has color and texture similar to the 2BC horizon. It is massive or has plate-like divisions. Consistence is friable or firm. Reaction ranges from moderately acid to slightly alkaline.
The 2R or 3R horizon is horizontal bedded shale or siltstone.
COMPETING SERIES: The
Niagara and
Westboro (T) series are in the same family. Niagara soils do not have bedrock within 60 inches. Westboro (T) soils do not have bedrock between 40 to 60 inches.
The
Aptakisic,
Creal,
Fitchville,
Hatmaker,
Iva,
Kendall,
Starks,
Stronghurst,
Waynetown, and
Yeddo (T) series may be in the same family when they are classified to the 8th Edition of the Keys to Soil Taxonomy. Aptakisic and Starks soils are stratified in the lower part of the series control section. Creal soils have eluvial horizons more than 14 inches thick. Fitchville, Iva, Kendall, and Stronghurst soils do not have 2B and 2C horizons within either the series control section or within depths of 40 inches. Waynetown soils have a sandy substratum. Hatmaker and all the soils indicated above do not have bedrock at depths of 40 to 60 inches.
The Canadaigua,
Caneadea,
Churchville,
Derb,
Rhinebeck and
Wallington series are in closely related families. Canadaigua and Derb soils do not have argillic horizons. Caneadea, Churchville, and Rhinebeck soils have more than 35 percent clay in the argillic horizon. Wallington soils have a fragipan.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Barcelona soils are nearly level to gently sloping soils on lake plains. Slopes range from 0 to 8 percent. These soils formed in silty lacustrine sediments underlain with till having a high shale content. Bedrock, mainly shale and siltstone, occurs at depths of 40 to 60 inches. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 30 to 45 inches; mean annual air temperature ranges from 46 to 50 degrees F., and the growing season ranges from 120 to 180 days.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: The
Arkport,
Colonie,
Collamer,
Niagara,
Raynham and
Williamson soils are nearby soils on lakeplains. Collamer and Niagara soils are fine-silty but do not have the underlying glacial till and bedrock within a depth of 60 inches. Arkport, Colonie, Raynham and Williamson soils do not have fine-silty particle size control sections. Associated soils on glacial outwash terraces include
Chenango,
Pompton and Red Hook. The associated
Fremont,
Hornell,
Orpark,
Busti and
Chautauqua soils are on adjacent till plains.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Somewhat poorly drained. The potential for surface runoff is low to medium. Permeability is moderate in the surface layer, moderately slow in the upper part of the subsoil, and moderately slow or moderate in the lower part of the subsoil and substratum.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most cleared areas are used for vegetable crops, grapes, pasture and hay. Forested areas have red maple, sugar maple, beech, white ash and other hardwoods.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Erie-Ontario Lake Plain in southwestern New York. MLRA 101, 139 and 140. The series is of small extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Amherst, Massachusetts
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Chautauqua County, New York, 1988.
REMARKS: The Barcelona series has previously been mapped as a bedrock variant of Niagara and Churchville soils. CEC activity class assigned as superactive based on one pedon of data from Cornell Univ.
Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
a. Ochric epipedon - the zone from the surface to a depth of 15 inches (Ap and BEg horizon).
b. Argillic horizon - the zone from 15 to 29 inches (Bt horizon).
c. Aquic moisture regime - evidenced by redoximorphic features in the horizon below the Ap horizon, and ped faces with 2 chroma or less and mottles in the argillic horizon (Bt horizon).
d. Aeric subgroup - evidenced by more than 40 percent high chroma matrix in the zone from 15 to 30 inches (Bt and 2BC horizon).
CEC activity class - Assigned as superactive based on pedon data from Cornell Univ.
National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.