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Downer is the New Jersey state soil. The Downer has four soil horizons:

Surface layer: dark grayish brown loamy sand
Subsurface layer: grayish brown sandy loam
Subsoil - upper: yellowish brown gravelly sandy loam
Subsoil - lower: yellowish brown sand and coarse sand
The Downer Series was established in 1960 in Gloucester County. Downer soils are formed in fluviomarine deposits in the Northern Atlantic Coastal Plains.


== See also ==
Pedology (soil study)
List of U.S. state soils


== References ==

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soils New Jersey (PDF) Archived 2017-05-07 at the Wayback Machine