Lakewood soil series

A representative soil profile of the Lakewood series. These excessively drained soils formed in sandy fluviomarine sediments. They are on flats and knolls. (Soil Survey of Cumberland County, New Jersey; by Lenore Matula Vasilas, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

 

DEPTH CLASS: Very deep

DRAINAGE CLASS: Excessively drained

PERMEABILITY: Rapid

SURFACE RUNOFF: Slow to rapid

PARENT MATERIAL: Sandy marine sediments

SLOPE: 0 to 25 percent

MEAN ANNUAL AIR TEMPERATURE (type location): 56 degrees F.

MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION (type location): 44 inches

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Mesic, coated Spodic Quartzipsamments

 

Solum Thickness: 30 to 50 inches

Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 60 inches

Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: Greater than 60 inches

Rock Fragments: 0 to 15 percent, by volume in the A, E, and B horizons and 0 to 30 percent in the C horizon, mostly gravel

Soil Reaction: Extremely acid to very strongly acid throughout the profile, unless limed

 

MAJOR USES: Dominantly woodland

VEGETATION: Wooded areas are dominantly pitch pine, black oak, and white oak. Where wildfires have been severe the trees are dwarfed, growing less than 5 feet tall and consist primarily of pitch pine, scrub oak, and blackjack oak.

DISTRIBUTION: New Jersey and possibly Maryland

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/LAKEWOOD.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

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