LOCATION LAKEHURST          NJ+VA

Established Series
CS-SK/Rev. JAK
11/2002

LAKEHURST SERIES

MLRA(S): 149A, 153C, 153D
MLRA OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: Morgantown, West Virginia
DEPTH CLASS: Very deep
DRAINAGE CLASS: Moderately well drained
PERMEABILITY: Rapid in the subsoil and to slow in the substratum
SURFACE RUNOFF: Slow
PARENT MATERIAL: Sandy coastal plain sediments
SLOPE: 0 to 5 percent
MEAN ANNUAL AIR TEMPERATURE (type location): 56 degrees F.
MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION (type location): 44 inches

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Mesic, coated Aquodic Quartzipsamments

TYPICAL PEDON: Lakehurst sand, forested. (Colors are for moist soil.)

A--0 to 3 inches; dark gray (10YR 4/1) sand; single grain; loose; many fine roots; very strongly acid; clear boundary. (0 to 4 inches thick)

E--3 to 15 inches; light gray (10YR 6/1) sand; single grain; loose; few quartzose pebbles; very strongly acid; abrupt irregular boundary. (6 to 24 inches thick)

Bh--15 to 18 inches; dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) loamy sand; single grain; loose; 5 percent, by volume, firm irregular nodules up to 2 inches in diameter; very strongly acid; clear irregular boundary roughly concentric with the overlying boundary. (1 to 10 inches thick)

BC--18 to 36 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand; single grain; loose; few firm nodules; common medium faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions in lower part; very strongly acid; gradual smooth boundary. (0 to 24 inches thick)

C--36 to 65 inches; pale brown (10YR 6/3) sand; single grain; loose; very strongly acid.

TYPE LOCATION: Burlington County, New Jersey; Camp Lenape Boy Scout Reservation, 1.5 miles south of Tuckerton Road on Jackson Road just south of the lake on east side of road.

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Solum Thickness: 30 to 50 inches
Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 60 inches
Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: 18 to 42 inches, January to April
Depth to the Bh Horizon: 10 to 30 inches
Rock Fragments: 0 to 20 percent, by volume mostly rounded quartzose pebbles. Individual gravelly layers are generally less than 1 foot thick.
Soil Reaction: Extremely acid to strongly acid, throughout the profile, unless limed

RANGE OF INDIVIDUAL HORIZONS:
A horizon:
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 2 to 5, chroma of 1 or 2
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--sand or fine sand

Ap horizon (if it occurs):
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 or 5, chroma of 1 or 2
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--sand or fine sand

E horizon:
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 5 to 7, chroma of 1 or 2
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--sand or fine sand

Bh horizon:
Color--hue of 5YR to 10YR, value of 3 to 6, chroma of 2 to 6. The redder hue and lower value and chroma are restricted to discontinuous thin subhorizons in the uppermost part of the Bh horizon.
Texture--sand, loamy sand, fine sand

BC horizon:
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 2.5YR, value of 4 to 6, chroma of 3 to 6
Texture--sand, loamy sand, fine sand
Redoximorphic Features--iron depletions in shades of olive or gray and iron accumulations in shades of red, brown, yellow, or olive

C horizon:
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 5 to 7, and chroma of 3 to 6
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--sand above 40 inches, and sand to clay below 40 inches
Redoximorphic Features--iron depletions in shades of olive or gray and iron accumulations in shades of red, brown, yellow, or olive

Cg horizon (if it occurs):
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 5Y, value of 5 to 7, and chroma of 1 or 2
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--sand above 40 inches, and sand to clay below 40 inches
Redoximorphic Features--iron depletions in shades of olive or gray and iron accumulations in shades of red, brown, yellow, or olive

COMPETING SERIES: None

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Landscape: Coastal plain
Landform: Broad flats bordering streams and depressions
Elevation: 2 to 20 feet
Parent Material: Sandy coastal plain sediments
Mean Annual Air Temperature: 50 to 56 degrees F.
Mean Annual Precipitation: 40 to 48 inches
Frost Free Period: 180 to 210 days

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
Lakewood soils--excessively drained with a seasonal high water table below 60 inches, on slightly higher landforms
Atsion soils--poorly drained with a seasonal high water table above 12 inches, on slightly lower-lying positions
Berryland soils--very poorly drained with a seasonal high water table above 6 inches, on lower-lying positions
Woodmansie soils--well drained and have a coarse-loamy particle-size control section, on slightly higher lying landforms

USE: Mostly woodland, Areas once farmed have now been abandoned.

VEGETATION: Wooded areas are dominantly pitch pine, shortleaf pine, black, and white oak, with an understory of lowbush blueberries and scrub oak. Where wildfires have been severe, pitch pine and black jack oak are dominant.

DISTRIBUTION: The Coastal Plain of New Jersey and Virginia

EXTENT: Large

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Camburton SCS Project, in portions of Burlington and Camden Counties, New Jersey, 1945

REMARKS: The Lakehurst series was previously classified as Entic Haplorthods. These soils typically have a Bh horizon less than 4 inches thick or if the horizon is more than 4 inches, it fails either the physical or chemical properties defined for spodic materials.

Diagnostic horizons and other diagnostic soil characteristics recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon--the zone from the soil surface to a depth of 3 inches (A horizon)
Albic horizon--the zone from 3 to 15 inches (E horizon)
Spodic horizon--the zone from 15 to 18 inches (Bh horizon)
Aquic conditions--the zone from 18 inches to a depth of 80 inches is periodically saturated (endosaturation)

ADDITIONAL DATA: Characterization samples; S73NJ-003-001, S73NJ-015-004, S73NJ-015-080, S94NJ-001-003, S94NJ-001-004, S94NJ-001-007, and S94NJ-001-008.

SERIES INTERPRETATION RECORDS: NJ0011, NJ0087, VA0200

TABULAR SERIES DATA:

SOI-5 Soil Name Slope Airtemp FrFr/Seas Precip Elevation NJ0011 LAKEHURST 0- 5 - - - - NJ0087 LAKEHURST 0- 5 - - - - VA0200 LAKEHURST 0- 4 59- 66 200-240 40- 52 2- 20

SOI-5 FloodL FloodH Watertable Kind Months Bedrock Hardness NJ0011 NONE 1.5-3.5 APPARENT JAN-APR >60 NJ0087 NONE 1.5-2.5 PERCHED JAN-APR >60 VA0200 NONE 1.5-3.0 APPARENT NOV-MAY >60

SOI-5 Depth Texture 3-Inch No-10 Clay% -CEC- NJ0011 0-15 S FS 0- 0 95-100 1- 4 - NJ0011 15-36 S FS LS 0- 0 95-100 1-10 - NJ0011 36-60 S GR-S SL 0- 0 70-100 2-10 - NJ0087 0-15 S FS 0- 0 95-100 0- 4 - NJ0087 15-40 S FS LS 0- 0 95-100 0-10 - NJ0087 40-60 SCL SC 0- 0 85-100 20-40 - VA0200 0- 4 S FS 0- 0 100-100 0- 2 - VA0200 4-72 S FS 0- 0 100-100 0- 4 -

SOI-5 Depth -pH- O.M. Salin Permeab Shnk-Swll NJ0011 0-15 3.6- 5.0 - 0- 0 6.0- 20 LOW NJ0011 15-36 3.6- 5.0 - 0- 0 6.0- 20 LOW NJ0011 36-60 3.6- 5.0 - 0- 0 6.0- 20 LOW NJ0087 0-15 3.6- 5.0 1.-3. 0- 0 6.0- 20 LOW NJ0087 15-40 3.6- 5.0 - 0- 0 6.0- 20 LOW NJ0087 40-60 3.6- 5.0 - 0- 0 0.0- 0.2 MODERATE VA0200 0- 4 3.6- 5.0 .5-2. 0- 0 20- 20 LOW VA0200 4-72 3.6- 5.0 0.-.5 0- 0 20- 20 LOW

National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.