LOCATION MINEOLA NYEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
TYPICAL PEDON: Mineola sandy loam on a 1 percent slope in a grass covered idle area. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise noted.)
A1--0 to 3 inches; black (5YR 2/1) sandy loam, very dark gray (5YR 3/1) dry; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; many fine roots; 5 percent rock fragments; moderately acid; abrupt smooth boundary.
A2--3 to 9 inches; dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2), sandy loam, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) dry; weak medium granular structure; very friable, common fine roots; 5 percent rock fragments; strongly acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (Combined thickness of the A horizons is 6 to 16 inches thick.)
AB--9 to 11 inches; dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) sandy loam; weak coarse granular structure; friable; common fine roots; 10 percent rock fragments; moderately acid; clear smooth boundary. (1 to 5 inches thick.)
Bw--11 to 18 inches; brown (7.5YR 4/4) very gravelly loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; few fine roots; 55 percent rock fragments; moderately acid; abrupt wavy boundary. (4 to 10 inches thick.)
C1--18 to 21 inches; brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sand; single grain; loose; 5 percent rock fragments; moderately acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (0 to 55 inches thick.)
C2--21 to 42 inches; yellow (10YR 5/6) very gravelly sand; single grain; loose; 50 percent rock fragments; common medium faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of iron oxides; moderately acid; abrupt wavy boundary. (15 to 26 inches thick.)
C3--42 to 72 inches; very pale brown (10YR 7/4) sand; single grain; loose; 10 percent gravel; strongly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Nassau County, New York; Town of Hempstead, 250 feet southwest of intersection of Stewart and Merrick Avenues. USGS Freeport, NY topographic quadrangle; latitude 40 degrees, 44 minutes, 10 seconds N. and longitude 73 degrees, 35 minutes, 2 seconds W. NAD 1927.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: The solum thickness ranges from 15 to 30 inches and corresponds to the depth to stratified sand and gravel. Depth to bedrock is greater than 60 inches and is mainly several hundred feet. Redoximorphic features consisting of concentrations of iron oxides occur between 18 and 30 inches of the soil surface. Rock fragment content ranges from 0 to 35 percent in the A horizon and from 0 to 75 percent for individual layers in the B and C horizons. Rock fragments are mainly gravel of granitic origin with up to 20 percent cobblestones in the B and C horizons. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid through moderately acid throughout.
The A horizon has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value of 2 or 3, and chroma of 1 or 2. Texture of the fine-earth fraction is loam, fine sandy loam or sandy loam. Structure is weak or moderate, fine or medium granular.
The AB horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 3 or 4, and chroma of 2 or 3. Texture of the fine-earth fraction is loam, fine sandy loam or sandy loam. Structure is weak or moderate, medium or coarse granular.
The Bw horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 3 through 6. Texture of the fine-earth fraction is loamy sand or loamy fine sand. Structure is weak fine granular or subangular blocky.
The C horizons have hue of 7.5YR through 2.5Y, value of 4 through 7, and chroma of 4 through 6. Texture of the fine earth fraction is loamy sand, sand or coarse sand.
COMPETING SERIES: There are no other known series in the same family.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Mineola soils are on outwash plains. Slope ranges from 0 to 3 percent. The soils formed in a thin loamy mantle over stratified sand and gravel outwash materials. Typically, the soils are along the bottoms of old glacial melt water channels. The climate is cool, temperate, and humid. Mean annual temperature ranges from 48 to 55 degrees F.; mean annual precipitation ranges from 40 to 44 inches; and the frost-free period ranges from 180 to 220 days. These soils are at elevations that range from 5 to 200 feet above sea level.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Atsion, Deerfield, Hempstead, Sudbury, Riverhead and Plymouth soils. Atsion, Deerfield, and Sudbury soils are on nearby landscapes but lack the thick dark colored (umbric) surface layer of the Mineola soils. Hempstead soils occur on nearby better drained landscapes and contain less sand and gravel. Riverhead soils have thicker loamy mantles over stratified sand and gravel, lack an umbric epipedon and are better drained. Plymouth soils lack an umbric epipedon, contain fewer rock fragments and are better drained.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Moderately well drained. Surface runoff is slow or medium. Permeability is moderately rapid in the solum and very rapid in the substratum.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas were originally used for farming; however, essentially all areas have been converted to housing developments or similar urban uses since 1940.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Only known area of occurrence is central Nassau County, New York. It occurs in linear depressions within the Hempstead soil area. MLRA 149B. The soil is of small extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Amherst, Massachusetts.
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Nassau-Suffolk soil survey, issued in 1928.
REMARKS: Original classification placed Mineola in the Typic subgroup, however because of changes established in the 5th edition of `Keys to Soil Taxonomy' this soil now classifies into the new Oxyaquic subgroup. Diagnostic horizons and other features recognized in the typical pedon are:
1) Umbric epipedon - from 0 to 11 inches (A1, A2, AB horizons)
2) Oxyaquic subgroup - as evidenced by redoximorphic concentrations from 21 to 40 inches (C2 horizon)
Soil Interpretation Record No: NY032