LOCATION BASH NY +CTEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
TYPICAL PEDON: Bash silt loam - brushy area (Colors are for moist soil).
Ap1--0 to 2 inches; dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; many fine and medium roots; common coarse roots; extremely acid; abrupt smooth boundary (1 to 8 inches thick).
Ap2--2 to 5 inches; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) silt loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; common medium and fine roots many fine and common coarse irregular pores; extremely acid; clear smooth boundary (0 to 4 inches thick).
Bw1--5 to 13 inches; reddish brown (5YR 4/3) silt loam with thin lenses of reddish brown (5YR 4/3) loamy fine sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine and few medium roots; common fine vesicular pores; few fine and medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of iron accumulation; extremely acid; clear smooth boundary.
Bw2--13 to 22 inches; reddish brown (5YR 4/3) silt loam with a few thin lenses of brown (7.5YR 5/2) loamy fine sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine and medium roots; common fine vesicular pores; common medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6 and 5YR 4/6) masses of iron accumulation; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary (Combined thickness of the Bw horizons is 14 to 28 inches.)
C1--22 to 45 inches; reddish gray (5YR 5/2) fine sandy loam; friable; few fine and medium roots; common fine vesicular pores; common medium distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of iron accumulation); very strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary (8 to 16 inches thick).
C2--45 to 61 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/2) fine sandy loam with a few lenses of sandy loam; massive; friable; common medium distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) and common medium faint reddish brown (5YR 4/3) masses of iron accumulation; very strongly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Sullivan County, New York, Town of Fallsburg, 200 yards south of the intersection of Gray Road and Ranch Hill Road.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Thickness of the solum ranges from 16 to 40 inches. Depth to bedrock is greater than 60 inches. Gravel content ranges from 0 to 30 percent above 30 inches and from 0 to 60 percent below 30 inches. Unless limed, reaction ranges from extremely acid to strongly acid in the solum and from very strongly acid to moderately acid in the substratum.
The A horizon has hue of 10YR through 2.5YR, value of 3 through 4, and chroma of 2 through 4. It is silt loam through fine sandy loam in the fine earth fraction.
The B horizon has hue of 7.5YR to 2.5YR, value of 3 through 5, and chroma of 3 through 6 with redoximorphic features. It is silt loam through fine sandy loam in the fine earth fraction.
The C horizon has hue of 10YR through 5YR, value of 3 through 5, and chroma of 1 through 4. The material is massive or has weak platy structure. It is typically silt loam through sandy loam in the fine earth fraction. Some pedons have fine earth texture below 40 inches that is sand, loamy sand and loamy fine sand.
COMPETING SERIES: There are currently no soils in the same family.
The Basher, Philo, and Pootatuck series are similar soils in related families. All are moderately well drained and lack redoximorphic features in the upper part of the B horizon. Also, the Pootatuck soils have 10YR or yellower hue in the B horizon.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Bash soils are nearly level soils on flood plains. Slope ranges from 0 to 3 percent. The soils developed in alluvium derived from reddish sandstone, siltstone and shale. The climate is humid and cool temperate with annual temperature ranging from 46 to 54 degrees F. Annual precipitation is 40 to 50 inches and the growing season ranges from about 120 to 150 days.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the very deep, well drained Barbour soils, the excessively drained Suncook soils, the very poorly drained Saco soils, and the poorly or very poorly drained Wayland soils on nearby flood plains. Very deep, somewhat excessively drained Hartford and excessively drained Penwood soils, and well to somewhat excessively drained Tunkhannock soils are on nearby terraces. Associated soils in upland till landscapes include the Cheshire, Oquaga, Lackawanna, Ludlow, Watchaug, Wellsboro, and Wethersfield series.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Somewhat poorly drained. Runoff is slow. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is moderately high or high. Pedons with sandy substrata below depths of 40 inches have moderately rapid permeability below that depth. These soils may be flooded in the spring each year.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are forested or have a cover of woody or herbaceous plants. Some areas are cleared and used for hay or pasture. Native trees include maple, ash and hemlock.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: MLRAs 140, 144A, and 145 in parts of southeastern and south central New York and central Connecticut. The series is of small extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Amherst, Massachusetts
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Sullivan County, New York, 1984.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features in this pedon include:
1. Ochric epipedon - from a depth of 0 to 5 inches (Ap horizons).
2. Cambic horizon - from a depth of 5 to 22 inches (Bw horizons).
3. Cation exchange activity class is presumed based upon a review of data for similar soils.