LOCATION NEVERSINK NYEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, acid, mesic Aeric Epiaquepts
TYPICAL PEDON: Neversink loam on a 1 percent slope in a brushy area (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise noted.)
A--0 to 3 inches; dark brown (7.5YR 4/2) loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; many fine roots; 10 percent rock fragments; strongly acid; clear wavy boundary (2 to 6 inches thick).
Eg--3 to 5 inches; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine roots; 10 percent rock fragments; common coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of iron oxide accumulations; strongly acid; abrupt wavy boundary (0 to 5 inches thick).
Bg--5 to 14 inches; reddish gray (5YR 5/2) gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; common fine and medium pores; some pores filled with dark brown (7.5YR 4/2) organic material; 20 percent rock fragment; common medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) accumulations of iron oxides; strongly acid; clear wavy boundary (0 to 30 inches thick.)
Bw--14 to 21 inches; brown (7.5YR 5/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common fine pores; 25 percent rock fragments; common coarse distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) areas of iron depletions and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of iron oxide accumulations; very strongly acid (0 to 16 inches thick).
C--21 to 72 inches; reddish brown (5YR 5/3) gravelly sandy loam; massive; firm; common fine and medium pores; few medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of iron oxide accumulations; 25 percent rock fragments; strongly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Sullivan county, New York, Town of Fallsburgh, 300 yards east along Church Road from intersection with Glen Wild Road; 500 feet north of Church Road in powerline right-of-way. USGS Woodridge, NY topographic quadrangle; latitude 41 degrees, 40 minutes, 9 seconds N. and longitude 74 degrees, 34 minutes, 25 seconds W. NAD 1927.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Thickness of the solum ranges from 20 to 40 inches. Depth to bedrock is greater than 60 inches. At least one subhorizon above 30 inches is dominated by chroma of 3 or 4. Rock fragments range from 5 to 35 percent in the A and B horizons and from 20 to 50 percent in the C horizon. Unless limed, reaction ranges from extremely acid through strongly acid throughout.
The A horizon has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value of 2 through 4, and chroma of 1 or 2. Texture of the fine-earth fraction is silt loam through sandy loam.
The Eg horizon, where present, has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value of 4 through 6, and chroma of 1 or 2. Texture of the fine-earth fraction is loam through sandy loam.
The Bg horizon, where present, has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value of 4 through 6, and chroma of 1 or 2. The Bw horizon, commonly below the Bg horizon when present, has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 3 or 4. Texture of the fine-earth fraction is loam through sandy loam. Consistence if friable or firm.
The C horizon has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 2 through 4. Texture of the fine-earth fraction is loam through sandy loam. Consistence is friable or firm.
COMPETING SERIES: There are no known series in the same family. Closely related soils are the Lamson, Massena, Newstead, Red Hook, and Sun series. These soils are all nonacid. Also closely related is the Suny series, which is the frigid analog of the Neversink series.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Neversink soils are on level or depressed parts of till plains and along small drainageways. Slopes range from 0 to 3 percent. The soils developed in acid glacial till derived from sandstone, siltstone and shale. The climate is humid and cool-temperate. Mean annual air temperature ranges from 46 to 51 degrees F.; mean annual precipitation ranges from 40 to 50 inches; and the frost-free period ranges from 110 to 150 days. Elevation ranges from 400 to 1750 feet above sea level.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the very deep, well drained Swartswood and Lackawanna soils, and the moderately well drained Wurtsboro and Wellsboro soils on hill tops and hillsides. The very deep, somewhat poorly drained Scriba or Morris soils are associated on slightly higher landscapes. Associated in the lowest parts of the landscape are the very deep, very poorly drained Alden, Carlisle or Palms soils.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Poorly drained. Runoff is very slow. Permeability is moderate in the surface layer, moderately slow or slow in the subsoil, and slow in the substratum.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are forested or have a cover of native woody or herbaceous plants. A few small areas are cleared and used for pasture or hay. Native trees include red maple, hemlock, and elm.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Parts of southeastern and south central New York. MLRA 140. The series is of small extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Amherst, Massachusetts
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Sullivan County, New York, 1984
REMARKS: The Neversink series was established as the acid analog of the Sun series. Original classification placed Neversink in the great group of Haplaquepts, but because of changes established in the 5th edition of "Keys to Soil Taxonomy" this soil now classifies in the great group of Epiaquepts. Competing series are expected to change as similar soils are reclassified. Diagnostic horizons and other features recognized in the typical pedon are:
1) Ochric Epipedon - from 0 to 5 inches (A and E horizons)
2) Cambic horizon - from 5 to 21 inches (Bg and Bw horizons)
3) Aquepts suborder - as evidenced by reduced matrix and/or ped faces and redoximorphic features within 20 inches of the soil surface (Eg and Bg horizons)
Soil Interpretation Records: NY0335, NY0336