LOCATION GOUGEVILLE NYEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Mixed, mesic Humaqueptic Psammaquents
TYPICAL PEDON: Gougeville mucky loamy fine sand in a brushy meadow on a 1 percent slope. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise noted).
A-- 0 to 6 inches, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) mucky loamy fine sand, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) dry; weak fine granular structure; very friable; many very fine, and common fine and medium roots; moderately acid; clear smooth boundary. (6 to 9 inches thick.)
C1-- 6 to 12 inches, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine sand; single grain; loose; common very fine and few fine roots; many medium and coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) soft masses of Fe accumulation (some slightly firm orstein), common black (N 2/0) stains of Mn accumulation, few yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Fe stains along root channels; moderately acid; abrupt smooth boundary.
C2-- 12 to 25 inches, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine sand; single grain; very friable; few very fine roots; many coarse and medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) soft masses of iron accumulation, common coarse faint gray (10YR 6/1) areas of iron depletion; moderately acid; gradual smooth boundary.
C3-- 25 to 40 inches, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine sand; single grain; very friable; common coarse and medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), and common coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) soft masses of iron accumulation, common coarse and medium faint gray (10YR 6/1) areas of iron depletion; moderately acid; clear smooth boundary.
C4-- 40 to 58 inches, gray (10YR 5/1) fine sand; single grain; very friable; common coarse prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) soft masses of iron accumulation; slightly acid; clear smooth boundary.
C5-- 58 to 72 inches, dark gray (N 4/0) fine sand; single grain; loose; slightly alkaline.
TYPE LOCATION: Clinton County, New York; Town of Plattsburgh; about 2400 feet east of State Route 22 and about 400 feet south of South Junction Road; USGS Plattsburgh, NY topographic quadrangle; Latitude 44 degrees, 37 minute, 59 seconds N. and Longitude 73 degrees, 28 minutes, 47 seconds W., NAD 1927.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Thickness of the solum ranges from 6 to 25 inches. Depth to bedrock is greater than 60 inches. Rock fragments are typically absent, but may range up to 2 percent by volume in the substratum. Redoximorphic features consisting of Fe/Mn concentrations or clay depletions occur above 20 inches.
The Ap horizon has hue of 10YR, value of 2 or 3 and chroma of 1 or 2. Texture is fine sand, loamy fine sand or fine sandy loam with or without mucky analogues. Some pedons in uncultivated areas have an A horizon with value or chroma one unit lower than an Ap horizon. Reaction ranges from strongly acid to slightly acid.
Some pedons have a Bg horizon with hue of 10YR through 5Y, or neutral, value of 4 through 6, and chroma of 0 through 2. Texture is fine sand or loamy fine sand. Structure is weak subangular blocky or granular. Consistence is very friable. Reaction ranges from moderately acid to slightly alkaline.
The C horizon has hue of 10YR through 5Y, or is neutral, value of 3 through 6, and chroma of 0 through 2. Texture above a depth of 40 inches is fine sand or loamy fine sand. Below 40 inches, some pedons have thin subhorizons of loamy very fine sand, very fine sandy loam, and silt loam. The Cg horizon is generally single grain or massive. Consistence is friable, very friable or loose. Reaction ranges from moderately acid to slightly alkaline.
COMPETING SERIES: Wareham is the only competing series in the same family. Wareham soils are more acid particularly in the substratum and average over 40 inches of precipitation annually.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Gougeville soils are nearly level or level soils on lake plains, outwash plains and perimeters of deltaic deposits. Slope ranges from 0 to 3 percent, but dominantly is 0 to 1 percent. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 26 to 36 inches. Mean annual air temperature ranges from 45 to 49 degrees F. Mean frost-free season ranges from 130 to 180 days. Elevation ranges from 95 to 500 feet above sea level.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the excessively drained Plainfield, the moderately well drained Deerfield, and the somewhat poorly drained Junius soils in a drainage sequence. Kingsbury, Massena, Pipestone, Rhinebeck and Shaker soils are also associates. Kingsbury and Rhinebeck soils have clayey sola and substrata. Massena soils are formed in loamy till. Pipestone soils have spodic horizons. Shaker soils have a loamy mantle over a clay substrata.
DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY: Poorly drained. Runoff potential is negligible or very high. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is high in the mineral surface and high or very high in the substratum. An apparent high water table ranges from the surface to 12 inches deep from November through June. Some pedons pond water for very brief periods.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are meadows, woodland or used for hay. Forested areas contain red maple, northern white cedar, green ash and eastern white pine.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Champlain Valley of Northern New York. MLRA 142. The series is of small extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Amherst, Massachusetts
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Clinton County, New York 1995.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and other features recognized in the typical pedon are:
1) Ochric epipedon - from 0 to 6 inches (A horizon).
2) Aquic conditions - as evidenced by redoximorphic features of reduced matrices, Fe/Mn accumulations, and Fe depletions (Cg1, Cg2, Cg3, Cg4, and Cg5 horizons).
3) Humaqueptic subgroup - meets criteria for mollic epipedon except for thickness and has less than 50 percent base saturation in some part within 40 inches (100 cm) of the mineral soil surface.