LOCATION HOOSIC NY+MA NH NJ
Established Series
Rev. MGC-WE-ERS
04/2016
HOOSIC SERIES
The Hoosic series consists of very deep, somewhat excessively drained soils formed in glacial outwash. They are nearly level to very steep soils on outwash plains, terraces, kames, eskers, and moraines. Slope ranges from 0 to 60 percent. Mean annual temperature is 48 degrees F. and mean annual precipitation is 38 inches.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
TYPICAL PEDON: Hoosic gravelly sandy loam, on a 4 percent slope in a pasture. (Colors are for moist soil.)
Ap -- 0 to 6 inches, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; many fine roots; 30 percent rock fragments; moderately acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (5 to 9 inches thick.)
Bwl -- 6 to 11 inches, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; common fine roots; many fine pores; 30 percent rock fragments with slate prominent; strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
Bw2 -- 11 to 22 inches, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; common fine roots; many fine pores; 40 percent rock fragments with slate prominent; very strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary. (Combined thickness of the Bw horizons is 5 to 36 inches.)
BC -- 22 to 28 inches, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly loamy sand; very weak fine granular structure; very friable; few fine roots; common fine pores; 45 percent rock fragments with slate prominent; very strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary. (0 to 20 inches thick.)
2C -- 28 to 72 inches, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crudely stratified very gravelly sand; single grain; loose; 50 percent rock fragments dominated by slate; strongly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Orange County, New York. Town of Mount Hope, 1/2 mile southeast of village of Otisville at northeast end of cemetery. USGS Otisville, NY topographic quadrangle; latitude 41 degrees, 27 minutes, 58 seconds N. and longitude 74 degrees, 32 minutes, 9 seconds W. NAD 1927.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Thickness of the solum ranges from 14 to 36 inches. Bedrock is deeper than 60 inches. Rock fragments range from 10 to 35 percent by volume in the A horizons, 20 to 55 percent in the B horizon, and 35 to 75 percent in the 2C horizon. Cobblestones and flagstones make up as much as 15 percent of the solum and up to 20 percent of the substratum. Reaction unless limed, is very strongly acid or strongly acid above 30 inches, and ranges from very strongly acid through slightly acid below 30 inches except in some pedons it increases to mildly alkaline below depths of 7 feet.
The Ap horizon has hue of 7.5YR through 2.5Y, value of 3 through 5, and chroma of 2 or 3. Texture of the fine earth fraction ranges from sandy loam to silt loam. It has weak or moderate, medium or fine granular structure, some pedons range to subangular blocky. Consistence is friable or very friable.
The B horizons have hue of 5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 3 through 6. They have textures ranging from coarse sandy loam to loam in the fine earth fraction above depths of 10 to 25 inches and textures of loamy fine sand, loamy sand or sand in the fine earth fraction below these depths. They have very weak or moderate, fine or medium granular or subangular blocky structure. Consistance is friable or very friable. Some subhorizons are single grained and loose. Some pedons have a 2BC horizon with color and textures similar to the 2C horizon.
The 2C horizons have hue of 7.5YR or 2.5Y, value of 3 through 5, and chroma of 2 through 4. They are stratified loamy sand, loamy coarse sand, coarse sand, or sand in the fine earth fraction. They are single grained and loose.
COMPETING SERIES: The
Gloucester series are in the same family. Gloucester soils lack stratified 2C horizons. The
Brandywine series may be in the same family once it is updated to the 8th Edition of the Keys to Soil Taxonomy. Brandywine soils lack stratified 2C horizons.
The
Alton,
Bonaparte,
Chenango,
Croton,
Hartford,
Hinckley,
Juno,
Manchester,
Merrimac,
Otisville,
Quonset,
Speelyai,
Tunkhannock and
Warwick series are similar soils in related families. Alton soils have a loamy-skeletal particle size control section, and have more than 60 percent base saturation within 30 inches. Bonaparte, Hinckley, Juno, Manchester, Otisville, Quonset, and Speelyai soils lack cambic horizons. Chenango, Tunkhannock and Warwick soils have loamy skeletal particle-size control sections. Croton soils have more than 60 percent base saturation within 30 inches. Hartford and Merrimac soils have sandy particle size control sections.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Hoosic soils are nearly level to undulating soils on glacial outwash plains and valley trains and related terraces, kames, eskers, and water sorted parts of moraines. Slope ranges from 0 to 60 percent. The soils formed I water-sorted sandy and gravelly material containing varying proportions of sandstone, shale, phyllite and slate. Mean annual precipation ranges from 30 to 50 inches; mean annual air temperature ranges from 45 to 51 degrees F.; mean annual frost free period ranges from 135 to 200 days. Elevation ranges from 100 to 1100 feet above sea level.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the competing
Alton,
Chenango,
Hinckley,
Otisville,
Quonset,
Tunkhannock and
Warwick series and the
Atherton,
Braceville,
Castile,
Fredon,
Halsey, and
Oakville soils. Atherton soils are poorly to very poorly drained and are associated in low areas. Braceville soils have a fragipan and are not as well drained. Castile soils are moderately well drained. Fredon soils are somewhat poorly to poorly drained. Halsey soils are very poorly drained and are in nearby depressions. Oakville soils are dominated by fine sand throughout and occur in less gravelly deposits.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Somewhat excessively drained. The potential for surface runoff ranges from low to high. Permeability is moderately rapid or rapid in the solum and very rapid in the substratum.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas have been cleared and are used to grow hay, pasture, corn, small grains, vegetable crops and deciduous fruit, or are idle. Woodlots contain sugar maple. oak, hickory, and in the coolest areas, American beech.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Central, southern and eastern New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey and western Massachusetts. MLRA's 140, 142, 144A. The series is moderately extensive.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Amherst, Massachusetts
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Washington County, New York, 1909.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recongnized in the typical pedon are:
(1) Ochric Epipedon - the zone from the surface of the soil to a depth of about 6 inches (Ap horizon).
(2) Cambic Horizon - the zone from 6 inches to a depth of about 28 inches (Bw1, Bw2 and BC horizons).
(3) Sandy-Sketetal feature - about 45 percent by volume weighted average rock fragments in the particle-size control section.
Soil Interpretation Records: NY0090, NY0425
National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.