Lakehurst soil series

A representative soil profile of the Lakehurst series. (Soil Survey of Cumberland County, New Jersey; by Lenore Matula Vasilas, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

 

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

 

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

 

USE AND VEGETATION: Mostly woodland. Acres once farmed have now been abandoned. 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 AND EXTENT: The Coastal Plain of New Jersey and Virginia, Extent: Large

 

For additional information about the survey area, visit:

www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/new_jersey/NJ0...

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/L/LAKEHURST.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#lakehurst

 

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