LOCATION BREEZE NY NJTentative Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Mixed, mesic Typic Udipsamments
TYPICAL PEDON: Breeze loamy sand in a back beach prairie area on a large pile of smoothed soil 13 percent slope. (Colors are for moist soil unless noted differently.)
A-- 0 to 6 inches; brown (10YR 5/3) loamy sand, pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; many very fine and fine plus common medium roots; 13 percent construction debris gravels; moderately alkaline; clear wavy boundary. (2 to 10 inches thick.)
Bw-- 6 to 14 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly sand; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; many very fine and fine roots; 12 percent construction debris and 3 percent natural gravel-sized rock fragments; moderately alkaline; gradual wavy boundary. (8 to 12 inches thick.)
C1-- 14 to 26 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; single grain; loose; few very fine roots; 12 percent construction debris in gravel-sized fragments; moderately alkaline; gradual wavy boundary.
C2-- 26 to 65 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly sand; single grain; loose; 15 percent construction debris in gravel-sized fragments and 5 percent gravel; neutral.
TYPE LOCATION: Queens County, New York; From the intersection of B 193rd Street and State Road, 750 feet heading West of this intersection on State Road, then 50 feet due South on the other side of a fence on a large smoothed mound; USGS Coney Island, NY topographic quadrangle; Latitude 40 degrees, 33 minutes, 40 seconds N. and Longitude 73 degrees, 54 minutes, 59 seconds W., NAD 1983. (Rockwell GPS Receiver)
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: The thickness of the anthropotransported soil materials range from 40 to 80 inches. The anthropotransported material may be any sandy material ranging from dredge sand, eolian sand, or outwash sand, usually from a very local source. The construction debris may range in material of plastic, glass, rubber, brick, lumber, asphalt, coal ash, unburned coal, gypsum board, concrete, and steel. A distinction can be made between materials that will hold water, allow roots to penetrate, and decompose versus those that will act like a rock fragment. Coarse fragments range from 10 to 34 percent by volume throughout the profile with greater than 10 percent construction debris coarse fragments within the particle size control section. Textures range from loamy fine sand to coarse sand, and gravelly to bouldery texture phases can occur. Reaction ranges from moderately acid to moderately alkaline. Hue ranges from 2.5YR through 2.5Y throughout.
The A horizon has value of 3 through 5, and chroma of 2 through 6. It is defined by granular structure and by organic matter accumulation. Consistence is very friable.
The B has value of 3 through 6, and chroma of 2 through 6. Structure is subangular blocky. Consistence is very friable.
The C has value of 3 through 6, and chroma of 2 through 6. It is single grain and consistence is loose.
COMPETING SERIES: These are the Acquango, Aldo, Battery (T), Bigapple (T), Biltmore, Boplain, Caesar, Chute, Dabney, Hodge, Oakville, Osolo, Pahuk, Penwood, Perks, Pinegrove, Plainfield, Sardak, Sarpy, Scotah, Spessard, Suncook, Tyner, Waupanucket (T), and Windsor series in the same family. All of these soils, except Battery (T), contain less than 10 percent (by volume) construction debris coarse fragments within their particle size control section. Battery (T) soils have and anthropan within 20 inches of the soil surface.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Breeze soils are on nearly level to steeply sloping artificially created or modified landforms. These soils formed in anthropotransported sandy soil materials intermingled with construction debris. The anthropotransported soil material is dominantly from sandy sediments and deposits such as dredge, dunes, and outwash. The construction debris material commonly originates from the demolition of buildings and roads. The dominant coarse fragments of the construction debris are concrete, asphalt, brick, coal ash, and steel. Natural rock fragments, if present, are derived mainly from sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Slope ranges from 0 to 75 percent. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 40 to 50 inches. Mean annual temperature ranges from 45 to 63 degrees F.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are Barren (T), Bulkhead (T), Fortress (T), Hooksan and Jamaica (T). Barren (T), Bigapple (T), Fortress (T), Hooksan and Jamaica (T) soils are relatively clean of construction debris.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained. The potential for surface runoff is very low to low on vegetated slopes less than 20 percent, and medium on vegetated slopes 20 percent and greater. The potential for surface runoff is one class more rapid where the soil is unvegetated or the surface is poorly protected from erosion. Permeability is rapid.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas of these soils are used for recreational purposes and wildlife habitat. Recreational use is unlikely where surface stones and boulders have not been removed. These soils are generally covered with common weeds, common reed, mugwort, goldenrod, and beachgrass.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: These soils occur on modified landscapes in and near major urbanized areas of the Northeast. MLRA 144A, 149A, and 149B. The soils of this series are of small extent.
MLRA OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: Amherst, Massachusetts.
SERIES PROPOSED: Queens County, New York; 1998.
REMARKS: 1) Under a classification for man-disturbed soils, these soils may be classified as a type of (Spolic), mixed, nonacid, mesic Spolic Udipsamments.
Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
1) Ochric epipedon - the zone from 0 to 6 inches (A horizon).
2) Particle size class - sandy, with 10 to 35 percent coarse fragments.
3) Non-cambic pedogenic horizon - the zone 6 to 14 inches.
4) The classification of this series is provisional until new Taxonomic classifications are developed for Anthropogenic soils.