LOCATION WOOLWICH NJInactive Series
MLRA(s): 149A, 153C, 153D
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Morgantown, West Virginia
Depth Class: Very deep
Drainage Class: Moderately well drained
Permeability: Moderately rapid or rapid
Surface Runoff: Slow
Parent Material: Sandy marine sediments that contain glauconite
Slopes: 0 to 15 percent
Mean Annual Air Temperature (type location): 56 degrees F.
Mean Annual Precipitation (type location): 45 inches
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludults
TYPICAL PEDON: Woolwich loamy sand, on a smooth 1 percent slope, in a cultivated field. (Colors are for moist soil.)
Ap--0 to 10 inches; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loamy sand; fine granular structure; friable; nonsticky, nonplastic; many fine roots; strongly acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (0 to 12 inches thick)
Bt1--10 to 16 inches; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; nonsticky, nonplastic; common fine roots; few faint clay films and clay bridging between sand grains; 1 percent glauconite; strongly acid; clear smooth boundary. (8 to 16 inches thick)
Bt2--16 to 24 inches; light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; slightly sticky, nonplastic; few fine roots; few faint clay films and clay bridging between sand grains; common medium faint olive yellow (2.5Y 6/8) irregularly shaped iron accumulations with diffuse boundaries throughout; 3 percent glauconite; strongly acid; clear smooth boundary.
Bt3--24 to 30 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few fine roots; common faint clay films and clay bridging between sand grains; few medium distinct light gray to gray (10YR 6/1) irregularly shaped iron depletions with clear boundaries in the matrix and common medium faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) irregularly shaped iron accumulations with diffuse boundaries throughout; 4 percent glauconite; very strongly acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (Combined thickness of the Bt horizon is 10 to 30 inches.)
C1--30 to 36 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loamy sand; single grain; loose; nonsticky, nonplastic; common fine prominent light gray to gray (10YR 6/1) irregularly shaped iron depletions with clear boundaries in the matrix and common fine and medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) irregularly shaped iron accumulations with diffuse boundaries throughout; 7 percent glauconite; very strongly acid; gradual smooth boundary.
C2--36 to 46 inches; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) loamy sand; single grain; loose; nonsticky, nonplastic; common fine and medium prominent and distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) irregularly shaped iron accumulations with diffuse boundaries throughout; 8 percent glauconite; very strongly acid; gradual smooth boundary.
C3--46 to 72 inches; light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) sand; single grain; loose; nonsticky, nonplastic; common fine prominent black (N 2/0) irregularly shaped iron depletions with clear boundaries in the matrix; 5 percent glauconite; very strongly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Salem County, New Jersey; about 1.25 miles south of the intersection of Pedricktown-Woodstown Road and I-295, 0.6 miles west of Pedricktown-Woodstown Road; USGS Penns Grove Quadrangle; lat. 39 degrees 43 minutes 15 seconds N. and long. 75 degrees 23 minutes 00 seconds W.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Solum Thickness: 30 to 45 inches
Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 60 inches
Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: 18 to 42 inches, January to April
Rock Fragments: 0 to 10 percent throughout the profile, mostly fine quartzite gravel or ironstone
Soil Reaction: Extremely acid to strongly acid throughout the profile, unless limed
Other Features: 0 to 10 percent glauconite by volume, in the A and B horizons and 5 to 15 percent in the C horizon
RANGE OF INDIVIDUAL HORIZONS:
A or Ap horizon:
Color--hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 or 5, chroma of 2 to 4
Texture--loamy sand or sandy loam
E horizon (if it occurs):
Color--hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 to 65, chroma of 3 or 4
Texture--loamy sand or sandy loam
BA or BE horizon (if they occur):
Color--hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 or 5, chroma of 3 to 6
Texture--loamy sand or sandy loam
Bt horizon:
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, chroma of 3 to 8
Texture--sandy loam
Redoximorphic Features--iron depletions in shades of olive, gray, or white and iron accumulations in shades of red, brown, yellow, or olive
BC horizon (if it occurs):
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, chroma of 3 to 8
Texture--sandy loam or loamy sand
Redoximorphic Features--iron depletions in shades of olive, gray, or white and iron accumulations in shades of red, brown, yellow, or olive
BCg horizon (if it occurs):
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, chroma of 1 or 2
Texture--sandy loam or loamy sand
Redoximorphic Features--iron depletions in shades of olive, gray, or white and iron accumulations in shades of red, brown, yellow, or olive
C horizon:
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 to 7, chroma of 3 to 8.
Redoximorphic Features--iron depletions in shades of olive, gray, or white and iron accumulations in shades of red, brown, yellow, or olive
Texture--loamy sand, loamy fine sand, or sand
Cg horizon (if it occurs):
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 to 7, chroma of 1 or 2, or is neutral with value of 4 to 8
Redoximorphic Features--iron depletions in shades of olive, gray, or white and iron accumulations in shades of red, brown, yellow, or olive
Texture--loamy sand, loamy fine sand, or sand
COMPETING SERIES:
Burtman soils--do not contain glauconite, on similar landforms
Muttontown soils--do not contain glauconite, have more than 20 percent clay in the lower subsoil, on similar landforms
Pascack soils--formed in glacial outwash
Pineyneck soils--contain more than 35 percent clay in the particle-size control section
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Landscape: Coastal Plain uplands
Landform: Broad ridges and terraces
Elevation: 40 to 100 feet
Parent Material: Sandy marine sediments that contain glauconite
Mean Annual Air Temperature: 50 to 58 degrees F.
Mean Annual Precipitation: 42 to 48 inches
Frost Free Period: 180 to 200 days
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
Adelphia soils--have a fine-loamy particle-size control section, and have more than 10 percent glauconite in the subsoil, on similar landforms
Collington soils--well drained, have a fine-loamy particle-size control section and have more than 10 percent glauconite in the subsoil, on similar positions
Freehold soils--well drained, have a fine-loamy particle-size control section, on slightly higher positions
Holmdel soils--have a fine-loamy particle-size control section, on similar positions
Pemberton soils--have a sandy surface more than 20 inches thick, on similar positions
Sharptown soils--have a fine-silty particle-size control section, on similar landforms
Swedesboro soils--well drained with a seasonal high water table more than 72 inches below the soil surface, on slightly higher positions
Tinton soils--have a sandy surface more than 20 inches thick and have more than 10 percent glauconite in the subsoil, on higher-lying positions
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Moderately well drained and moderately rapid or rapid permeability.
USE AND VEGETATION: Growing vegetables, fruit, specialty crops, corn, and soybeans. Wooded areas are dominantly black oak, white oak, scarlet oak, red oaks, yellow-poplar, hickory, and beech
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Inner Coastal Plain of New Jersey; small
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Morgantown, West Virginia
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Salem County, New Jersey, 1998 (Inactivated 03/2000)
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and other diagnostic soil characteristics recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon--the zone from the surface to a depth of 10 inches (Ap horizon)
Argillic horizon--the zone from 10 to 30 inches (Bt1 and Bt2 horizon)
Aquic conditions--the zone from 24 inches to a depth of 80 inches is periodically saturated (endosaturation)
OSD-SIR REPORT:
SOI-5 Soil Name Slope Airtemp FrFr/Seas Precip Elevation
NJ0103 WOOLWICH 0- 15 50- 58 180-200 42- 48 40- 100
SOI-5 FloodL FloodH Watertable Kind Months Bedrock Hardness
NJ0103 NONE 1.5-3.5 APPARENT JAN-APR >60
SOI-5 Depth Texture 3-Inch No-10 Clay% -CEC-
NJ0103 0-10 LS 0- 0 90-100 3- 8 3- 6
NJ0103 0-10 SL 0- 0 90-100 5-10 5- 10
NJ0103 10-30 SL FSL SCL 0- 0 90-100 10-25 6- 15
NJ0103 30-46 LS LFS 0- 0 90-100 3- 8 4- 8
NJ0103 46-72 S 0- 0 85-100 1- 5 3- 6
SOI-5 Depth -pH- O.M. Salin Permeab Shnk-Swll
NJ0103 0-10 3.6- 4.4 .5-2. 0- 0 6.0- 20 LOW
NJ0103 0-10 3.6- 4.4 1.-3. 0- 0 2.0- 6.0 LOW
NJ0103 10-30 4.5- 5.5 0.-.5 0- 0 2.0- 6.0 LOW
NJ0103 30-46 4.5- 5.5 0.-.5 0- 0 6.0- 20 LOW
NJ0103 46-72 4.5- 5.5 0.-.5 0- 0 6.0- 20 LOW