LOCATION CAMRODEN NYEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Aeric Fragiaquepts
TYPICAL PEDON: Camroden channery silt loam on a 5 percent slope in a brushy, idle area. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise noted).
Ap--0 to 7 inches; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) channery silt loam; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) dry; moderate medium and fine granular structure; friable; many fine roots; 15 percent rock fragments; strongly acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (5 to 10 inches thick)
Bw--7 to 13 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) channery silt loam; common medium distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) redoximorphic concentrations; very weak fine granular structure; very friable; many fine roots; many fine pores; 15 percent rock fragments; strongly acid; clear wavy boundary. (4 to 16 inches thick)
E--13 to 15 inches; pale brown (10YR 6/3) channery silt loam; very weak thin platy structure; friable; common fine roots; many fine pores; 15 percent rock fragments; many medium and fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) redoximorphic concentration; strongly acid; abrupt wavy boundary. (0 to 5 inches thick)
Bx1--15 to 40 inches; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) channery silt loam; strong very coarse prismatic structure; prisms are 10 to 25 inches across; very firm; brittle; few fine roots along prisms faces; pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt coats on prism faces, decreasing in thickness with depth; inner border of prism faces is strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); common fine pores with clay linings; 20 percent rock fragments; common medium and fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) redoximorphic concentrations; strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary.
Bx2--40 to 47 inches; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) channery loam; massive; very firm; brittle; common fine pores with clay linings; 25 percent rock fragments; common fine distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/4 redoximorphic concentrations; slightly acid; diffuse boundary. (Combined thickness of the Bx horizon is 15 to 40 inches).
Cd--47 to 72 inches; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) channery silt loam; weak coarse platy structure; very firm; 25 percent rock fragments; neutral; clear wavy boundary.
TYPE LOCATION: Lewis County, New York, Town of Pinckney; 1 1/2 miles north-east of Barnes Corners, 50 feet south of County Route 194 at junction with north bearing road (unnamed) and Route 194. USGS Barnes Corners, NY topographic quadrangle; latitude 43 degrees, 49 minutes, 39 seconds N. and longitude 75 degrees, 47 minutes, 47 seconds W. NAD 1927.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Thickness of the solum ranges from 35 to 62 inches. Carbonates are present in the lower part of the substratum in some pedons. Bedrock is deeper than 60 inches. Depth to the top of the fragipan ranges from 14 to 21 inches. The upper horizons are typically higher in silt and clay than the fragipan and C horizons, and some pedons have a distinct discontinuity within the upper 30 inches. Rock fragments range from 3 to 25 percent by volume in the upper horizons and from 5 to 35 percent in the fragipan and C horizon.
The Ap or A horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 3 or 4, and chroma of 2 or 3. Texture of the fine-earth fraction is loam or silt loam. Structure is moderate or weak, medium or fine granular or subangular blocky. Consistence is friable or very friable. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid through moderately acid, unless limed. In undisturbed areas, some pedons have an O, E, and thin Bs horizon.
The Bw horizon has hue of 7.5YR through 2.5Y, value of 4 or 5 and chroma of 2 through 4. Texture of the fine-earth fraction is loam, silt loam, or silty clay loam. Structure is very weak, weak, or moderate granular or subangular blocky. Consistence is friable or very friable. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid through moderately acid.
The E horizon is lighter in color than the Bw and commonly has platy structure.
The Bx horizons has hue of 10YR through 5Y, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 2 through 4 in ped interiors. Texture of the fine-earth fraction is loam, silt loam, or silty clay loam. Structure is coarse or very coarse, prismatic, and is massive or subangular blocky within prisms. Consistence is firm through extremely firm and is slightly brittle or brittle. Redoximorphic features are common or many. Reaction ranges from strongly acid through slightly acid.
The C horizon is similar to the Bx horizon in color and texture, but has is less brittle and has fewer redoximorphic features. Structure is platy, or the material is massive. Consistence is firm or very firm. Reaction ranges from moderately acid through slightly alkaline.
COMPETING SERIES: The Norchip series is in the same family. Norchip soils are dominated by rock fragments of sandstone, siltstone, and lesser amounts of shale. The Ontusia and Trussel series were in the same family, but have not been reclassified for CEC reaction class. The Norchip and Ontusia soils are dominated by rock fragments of sandstone, siltstone, and lesser amounts of shale. They also occur in areas of slightly lower rainfall and generally are at slightly higher elevations. Trussel soils formed in colluvium derived from residual soil material, have more angular rock fragments, a lower bulk density in the fragipan, and are at higher elevations.
The Brayton, Erie, Marcy, Volusia, and Westbury soils are in related families. Brayton soils have a coarse-loamy particle size control section and lack a fragipan. Erie and Volusia soils have a mesic temperature regime. Marcy soils are more poorly drained and lack a layer in the upper part of the solum that has chroma greater than 2 in the matrix or on ped faces. Westbury soils have a spodic horizon and a coarse-loamy particle size control section.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Camroden soils occupy nearly level to moderately steep, uniform to slightly concave land forms on till plains. Slopes range from 0 to 25 percent. The regolith is firm basal till derived from slightly acid to slightly alkaline gray shale and some siltstone. Mean annual air temperature ranges from 40 to 45 degrees F.; mean annual precipitation ranges from 40 to 55 inches; mean growing season ranges from 90 to 135 days, and the elevation ranges from 800 to 1800 feet.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: Camroden soils are the somewhat poorly drained member of a drainage sequence that includes the well and moderately well drained Pinckney soils on higher knolls and ridges and the poorly drained competing Marcy soils in low depressions and on toeslopes. Worth and Empeyville soils occupy more sandy till plains in the same general region.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Somewhat poorly drained. Runoff is medium to slow. Permeability is moderate in the horizons above the fragipan and very slow in the fragipan and C horizon.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas have been cleared; many of the cleared areas are idle or used for grass hay, or pasture. Uncleared areas support sugar maple, American beech, hemlock, red maple, and elm.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Slopes of the Tug Hill Plateau extending into the Black River and Mohawk Valleys of New York. MLRA's 141 and 101. The series is moderately extensive.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Amherst, Massachusetts
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Lewis County, New York, 1953. Named for the Village of Camroden, Oneida County, New York, where it was proposed in 1943.
REMARKS: This series was previously classified as a Typic Fragiaquods, but laboratory data and morphology indicates these soils lack a spodic horizon, an thus are reclassified as Aeric Fragiaquepts. Diagnostic horizons and other features recognized in the typical pedon are as follows:
(1) Ochric Epipedon - the zone from the surface to 7 inches
(Ap horizon)
(2) Cambric horizon - the zone from 7 to 15 inches (Bw and E
horizons)
(3) Fragipan - the zone from 15 to 47 inches (Bx1 and Bx2
horizons)
(4) Frigid temperature regime and aquic moisture regime
ADDITIONAL DATA: Cornell University characterization data is available for pedon S84NY065-6 from Oneida County, New York. Bulk density measurements for this data appears to be in error.
Soil Interpretation Record No.: NY0183, NY0184