LOCATION HASBROUCK NJ
Established Series
Rev. CFE-SG-SMF
01/2013
HASBROUCK SERIES
The Hasbrouck series consists of very deep, poorly drained soils in depressions on uplands. They typically formed from eroded and redeposited glacial materials overlying till. Slope ranges from 0 to 8 percent. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is moderately high or high in the solum above the fragipan, moderately low or low in the fragipan, and moderately high or high in the substratum. Mean annual temperature is about 50 degrees F., and mean annual precipitation is about 44 inches.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Fragiaqualfs
TYPICAL PEDON: Hasbrouck stony silt loam, 1 percent slope, wooded. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)
A--0 to 8 cm; very dark gray (10YR 3/1) stony silt loam, gray (10YR 6/1) dry; moderate coarse granular structure; friable; common medium and fine roots; 10 percent stones, 15 percent cobbles and gravel; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary. (5 to 15 cm thick)
Eg--8 to 25 inches; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and dark gray (10YR 4/1) stony silt loam; moderate coarse granular structure; friable; few fine and medium roots; 10 percent stones, 15 percent cobbles and gravel; common fine prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) redoximorphic concentrations; very strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary. (13 to 20 cm thick)
BEg--25 to 36 cm; pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; few faint clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent gravel, 5 percent cobbles; many fine and medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) redoximorphic concentrations; moderately acid; gradual wavy boundary. (0 to 15 cm thick)
Btg--36 to 61 inches; gray (5YR 6/1) sandy clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, plastic; few fine roots; many distinct clay films on faces of peds and clay bridging between sand grains; 10 percent gravel; many medium and coarse prominent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) redoximorphic concentrations; slightly acid; abrupt wavy boundary. (25 to 41 cm thick)
Bx--61 to 107 cm; reddish brown (5YR 4/4) gravelly sandy loam; weak thick platy structure; very firm, brittle; 25 percent gravel, 2 percent cobbles; few faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds; few black (N2/0) stains; slightly acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (28 to 76 cm thick)
C--107 to 183 cm; reddish brown (5YR 4/4) gravelly sandy loam; weak very thick platy structure grading to massive within 152 cm; friable; 25 percent gravel, 5 percent cobbles; neutral.
TYPE LOCATION: Passaic County, New Jersey; Wayne Township, 1,680 feet west of Wayne Township municipal buildings, 10 feet south of dirt road.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Solum thickness commonly ranges from 51 to 127 cm. Depth to the top of the fragipan ranges from 40 to 76 cm. Depth to red shale, sandstone, or basalt bedrock is typically more than 3 meters below the surface. Rock fragment content in the solum above a lithologic discontinuity, where present, ranges from 0 to 35 percent by volume. Rock fragment content in the fragipan and the C horizon commonly ranges from 15 to 50 percent by volume but the range in the fragipan ranges as low as 4 percent. Rock fragments larger than 8 cm in diameter, range from 0 to 15 percent by volume in the solum and from 0 to 30 percent in the C horizon. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid through slightly acid in the solum above the fragipan, from moderately acid through slightly acid in the fragipan, and from slightly acid through mildly alkaline in the C horizon.
Some pedons have an O horizon.
The A or Ap horizon has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value of 2 through 4, and chroma of 1 through 3. Dry value is 6 or more. Texture is loam or silt loam in the fine-earth fraction.
The E or Eg horizon has hue of 2.5YR through 10YR, value of 3 through 6, and chroma of 1 or 2. Mottles with higher value and chroma are few or common. Texture ranges from sandy loam to silt loam in the fine-earth fraction.
The BEg horizon, where present, has hue of 2.5YR through 10YR, value of 3 through 6, and chroma of 1 or 2. Redoximorphic features with higher chroma are common or many. Texture ranges from fine sandy loam to silt loam in the fine-earth fraction.
The Btg horizon has hue of 2.5YR through 10YR, value of 3 through 7, and chroma of 1 or 2. Redoximorphic features with higher chroma are common or many. Texture is loam, clay loam, or sandy clay loam in the fine-earth fraction. Clay content dominantly is between 20 and 30 percent.
The Bx horizon has hue of 2.5YR through 10YR, value of 3 through 7, and chroma of 1 through 8. Texture is commonly loam, loam, fine sandy loam, or sandy loam. Clay content dominantly is between 10 and 20 percent. Structure is weak or moderate, medium or thick platy, and may be within weak coarse prisms. Ped coat colors are one or two units of value higher than ped interiors.
The C horizon has hue of 10R through 10YR, value of 3 through 7, and chroma of 0 through 6. Texture is dominantly sandy loam but ranges from loamy sand to loam in the fine-earth fraction. Clay content is less than 10 percent. The C horizon is massive, but may have weak, very thick platy layers in the upper 60 cm. Consistence is friable or firm.
COMPETING SERIES: This is the
Frenchtown series. Frenchtown soils have rock fragments that are dominantly sandstone gravel.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Hasbrouck soils are in nearly level or gently sloping depressions, drainageways, and areas adjacent to narrow floodplains of minor streams on uplands. Slope ranges from 0 to 8 percent. The soils formed in eroded and redeposited glacial materials on till of Wisconsin Age. The till materials are composed primarily of red shales, red sandstone, and basalt.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These include the well to moderately well drained
Boonton soils and the somewhat poorly drained
Haledon soils which formed in till and are on the adjacent uplands. The well drained
Netcong soils, which do not have a fragipan, are on sideslopes of uplands. The well drained
Holyoke and
Yalesville soils are shallow and moderately deep soils on hills and ridges. The poorly or very poorly drained
Preakness soils are on adjacent outwash plains and terraces.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Poorly drained. Runoff is negligible to high. Permeability is moderately rapid or moderate in the solum above the fragipan, slow or very slow in the fragipan, and moderately rapid or moderate in the C horizon. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is moderately low to high in the solum and substratum and very low to moderately low in the fragipan.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most of the areas are wooded. A few of the gently sloping areas are used for recreation. Native vegetation is dominated by red maple, ash, pin oak, and swamp white oak.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northern New Jersey. The soil is of limited extent with approximately 5,000 acres mapped.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Amherst, Massachusetts
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Bergen County, New Jersey 1986.
REMARKS: The Hasbrouck series replaced those soils which were previously correlated as Haledon Variant in Middlesex and Passaic Counties, New Jersey.
Cation exchange activity class determined from a review of associated soils. Geographical location and coordinates could not be reliably determined from the described location.
Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon include:
1. Ochric epipedon - the zone from the surface to a depth of 14 inches (A, Eg and BEg horizons).
2. Argillic horizon - the zone from 14 to 24 inches (Btg horizon).
3. Fragipan - the zone from 24 to 42 inches (Bx horizon).
National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.