LOCATION COLLINGTON NJ+DE MD
Established Series
SCK/Rev. JAK
11/2015
COLLINGTON SERIES
MLRA(s): 149A, 153C, 153D
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
Depth Class: Very deep
Drainage Class (Agricultural): Well drained
Internal Free Water Occurrence: Very deep and absent
Flooding Frequency and Duration: None
Ponding Frequency and Duration: None
Index Surface Runoff: Low to very rapid
Permeability: Moderate or moderately slow
Shrink-Swell Potential: Moderate
Landscape: Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain
Landform: Broad interfluve, hill, and ridge
Geomorphic Component: Crest, side slope
Hillslope Profile Position: Summit, shoulder, and backslope
Parent Material: Glauconite bearing eolian and/or fluviomarine deposits
Slope: 0 to 80 percent
Elevation (type location): 90 feet
Frost Free Period (type location): 195 days
Mean Annual Air Temperature (type location): 56 degrees F.
Mean Annual Precipitation (type location): 45 inches
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
TYPICAL PEDON: Collington sandy loam (in an area of Collington sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes), in previously cultivated woodland. (Colors are for moist soil.)
Ap--0 to 9 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) dry; weak fine granular structure; slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2 percent, by volume olive and greenish glauconite pellets; strongly acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (8 to 14 inches)
Bt1--9 to 22 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few faint clay films on faces of peds; common worm holes filled with material from overlying horizons; 5 percent, by volume olive and greenish glauconite pellets increasing to 10 percent in the lower part; strongly acid; gradual smooth boundary.
Bt2--22 to 30 inches; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure parting to moderate fine subangular blocky; friable; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few faint clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent, by volume olive and greenish glauconite pellets increasing to 15 percent in the lower part; strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary. (Combined thickness is 10 to 35 inches.)
BC--30 to 38 inches; olive (5Y 5/6) sandy loam; few lenses of olive (5Y 4/4) sandy clay loam and common lenses of pale yellow (5Y 8/4) loamy very fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; slightly sticky, non plastic; 15 percent, by volume olive and greenish glauconite pellets; very strongly acid; clear irregular boundary. (3 to 15 inches thick)
C1--38 to 43 inches; olive (5Y 4/4) sandy loam; common, thin, stratified lenses of pale yellow (5Y 7/4) loamy very fine sand; few fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) mottles; massive; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 15 percent, by volume olive and greenish glauconite pellets; very strongly acid; clear irregular boundary.
C2--43 to 80 inches; pale olive (5Y 6/4) and olive (5Y 4/4) sandy loam; few thin stratified lenses of pale olive (5Y 6/4) fine sandy loam and pale yellow (5Y 7/4) loamy very fine sand; common fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) mottles; massive; very friable; slightly sticky, nonplastic; 20 percent, by volume olive and greenish glauconite pellets; very strongly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Gloucester County, New Jersey; about 0.56 mile northwest of intersection of State Highway 47 and State Highway 41, on State Highway 47, near the town of Fairview, 400 feet southwest from State Highway 47, on a summit, in a previously cultivated field covered with young secondary tree growth; USGS Runnemeade, NJ topographic quadrangle, lat. 39 degrees 47 minutes 12 seconds N. and long. 75 degrees 06 minutes 25 seconds W.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Depth to top of Argillic horizon: 5 to 18 inches
Depth to base of Argillic horizon: 25 to 60 inches
Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 72 inches
Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: Greater than 72 inches
Rock Fragments: 0 to 10 percent, by volume in the A, B, and C horizons; mostly fine or medium rounded quartzite gravel.
Soil Reaction: Extremely acid to strongly acid throughout the profile, unless limed
Content of Glauconite: Weighted average of 0 to 10 percent, by volume pellets in the A and E horizons; 10 to 20 percent in the B horizon; and 2 to 40 percent in the C horizons
RANGE OF INDIVIDUAL HORIZONS:
A or Ap horizon:
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 3 to 5, chroma of 2 to 4
Texture--silt loam, loam, fine sandy loam, sandy loam, loamy fine sand, or loamy sand
E horizon (if it occurs):
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, chroma of 1 to 3
Texture--silt loam, loam, fine sandy loam, sandy loam, or loamy sand
BA horizon (if it occurs):
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 3 to 6
Texture--loam, fine sandy loam, or sandy loam
Bt horizon:
Color--hue of 5YR to 5Y, value of 4 to 6, chroma of 3 to 6
Texture-sandy clay loam, clay loam, loam, or sandy loam. Some pedons have thin strata or pockets of very fine sandy loam, loamy very fine sand, silt, or sandy clay.
BC horizon:
Color--hue of 5YR to 5Y, value of 4 to 6, chroma of 3 to 6
Texture--sandy clay loam, clay loam, loam, fine sandy loam, or sandy loam. Some pedons have thin strata or pockets of very fine sandy loam, loamy very fine sand, silt, or sandy clay.
C horizon:
Color--hue of 5YR to 5Y, value of 4 to 7, and chroma of 3 to 8. Some pedons are interlayered with hue of 5GY to 5G, value of 3 to 5, and chroma of 1 or 2.
Texture--loam, sandy loam, fine sandy loam, very fine sandy loam, loamy very fine sand, loamy sand, sand, or coarse sand, or may be stratified with these textures. Some pedons are interlayered or have isolated pockets or lenses of sandy clay or clay.
COMPETING SERIES:
There are more than 50 series in the same family. Series that are within the same MLRA(s) include:
Colts Neck soils--have a weighted average of 2 to 10 percent glauconite pellets in the subsoil and have subsoil colors that are less olive with hue of 5YR or redder
Freehold soils--have a weighted average of 2 to 10 percent glauconite pellets in the subsoil and subsoil colors that are less olive or greenish with hue of 7.5YR or 10YR
Wist soils-have a seasonal high water table at a depth of 40 to 72 inches (well drained)
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Landscape: Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain
Landform: Broad interfluve, hill, and ridge
Geomorphic Component: Crest, side slope
Hillslope Profile Position: Summit, shoulder, and backslope
Parent Material: Glauconite bearing eolian and/or fluviomarine deposits
Slope: 0 to 80 percent
Elevation: 25 to 165 feet
Frost Free Period: 180 to 215 days
Mean Annual Air Temperature: 50 to 57 degrees F.
Mean Annual Precipitation: 42 to 48 inches
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
Adelphia soils-Have a seasonal high water table at a depth of 18 to 42 inches (moderately well drained) and formed in similar parent materials; on slightly lower-lying landforms
Colts Neck soils--formed in similar parent materials lower in glauconite (weighted average of 2 to 10 percent glauconite pellets in the subsoil) and subsoil colors that are less olive with hue of 5YR or redder; on similar landforms
Freehold soils--formed in similar parent materials lower in glauconite (weighted average of 2 to 10 percent glauconite pellets in the subsoil) and subsoil colors that are less olive or greenish with hue of 7.5YR or 10YR; on similar landforms
Holmdel soils--have a seasonal high water table at a depth of 10 to 20 inches (somewhat poorly drained) and have a weighted average of 2 to 20 percent glauconite pellets in the B horizon; on slightly lower-lying landforms
Marlton soils-have a seasonal high water table at a depth of 18 to 40 inches (moderately well drained), are in a fine particle-size family, and formed in marine deposits higher in glauconite (weighted average of 20 percent or more glauconite pellets in the mineralogy control section); on lower-lying landforms
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY:
Depth Class: Very deep (greater than 72 inches) to bedrock
Drainage Class (Agricultural): Well drained
Internal Free Water Occurrence: Very deep (greater than 60 inches) and absent (not observed)
Flooding Frequency and Duration: None
Ponding Frequency and Duration: None
Index Surface Runoff: Low to very rapid
Permeability: Moderate or moderately slow
Shrink-Swell Potential: Moderate
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Historically cleared and used for corn, wheat, soybeans, hay, pasture, fruits, vegetables, and nursery. However, in New Jersey, many areas have since become urbanized.
Dominant Vegetation: Mixed upland oaks, sweetgum, yellow-poplar, hickory, red maple, sassafras, and American beech.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain of New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland
Extent: Moderate
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Morgantown, West Virginia
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Prince Georges County, Maryland, 1901
REMARKS:
01/2002. Pedon relocated to Gloucester County, New Jersey. This revision restricts the range of glauconite pellet content to a weighted average of 10 to 20 percent, by volume within the mineralogy control section, and maintains the series in a mixed mineralogy family. It also changes the classification from Humic Hapludults to Typic Hapludults based on more current field observations throughout the MLRA area in which the soil is found. It also revises colors, textures, geographic setting, parent materials, and other RIC and properties of the soil.
Diagnostic horizons and soil characteristics recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon--the zone from 0 to 9 inches (Ap horizon)
Argillic horizon--the zone from 9 to 30 inches (Bt1 and Bt2 horizons)
Database Information:
OSD Data Mapunit ID: To be developed
Typical Pedon Data Mapunit ID: 407359
OSD User Pedon ID: To be developed
ADDITIONAL DATA: None
TABULAR SERIES DATA:
SOI-5 Soil Name Slope Airtemp FrFr/Seas Precip Elevation
NJ0023 COLLINGTON 0-80 50-57 180-215 42-48 25-165
SOI-5 FloodL FloodH Watertable Kind Months Bedrock Hardness
NJ0023 NONE 6.0-6.0 - >72 ---
SOI-5 Depth Texture 3-Inch No-10 Clay% -CEC-
NJ0023 0-13 SL SIL FSL 0- 0 95-100 10-20 -
NJ0023 0-13 LS 0- 0 95-100 5-10 -
NJ0023 13-32 SCL SL CL 0- 0 95-100 15-35 -
NJ0023 32-60 SR S SL 0- 0 95-100 5-15 -
SOI-5 Depth -pH- O.M. Salin Permeab Shnk-Swll
NJ0023 0-13 3.6- 5.5 1.-3. 0- 0 0.6- 6.0 LOW
NJ0023 0-13 3.6- 5.5 1.-3. 0- 0 6.0- 20 LOW
NJ0023 13-32 3.6- 5.5 - 0- 0 0.2- 2.0 MODERATE
NJ0023 32-60 3.6- 5.5 - 0- 0 0.6- 20 LOW
National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.