IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ninigret
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959MA005002
  • User Pedon ID: 1959MA005002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959MA005002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0447
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32975
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 41.9660873
  • Std. Longitude: -71.2708588
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Bristol County, Massachusetts. Town of Attleboro, A.J. Mott farm, Lindsey Street, 1-1/2 mile north northeast of city of Attleboro. Pinpointed on soil survey sheet and on air photo DPN-1K-39.
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA005—Bristol
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E.J. Pedersen, G. Schmidt, J. Kubota, C.F. Hastings, Jr., S.J. Zayach, and J.R. Mott.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ninigret
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/8/2015
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ninigret
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGGI2

    DAUCU

    Agrostis gigantea

    Daucus

    redtop

    wild carrot

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    0—23

    46—137

    46—23

    46—137

    —23—

    —91—

    —23—

    —91—
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) sandy loam; weak and moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03338
    Bw1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03339. Sandy loam contains about 10-20 percent of the material from the Ap horizon.
    Bw2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak fine granular parts to weak medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03340. 5-10 percent of horizon has wormholes filled with material from the Ap horizon.
    Bg1—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 5YR 4/ (5YR 4/) and medium distinct 5YR 4/ (5YR 4/) and brown (7.5YR 4/4); 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03341
    Bg2—58 to 104 centimeters (22.8 to 40.9 inches); 50 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed loamy sand, fine sandy loam, loamy sand; massive parts to platy; friable; medium distinct 5YR 4/ (5YR 4/) and coarse distinct 5YR 4/ (5YR 4/) and medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and coarse prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4); 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A03344. lower gray
    Bg3—104 to 122 centimeters (40.9 to 48.0 inches); sand; single grain; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4); 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03345
    C—122 to 137 centimeters (48.0 to 53.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) fine sand; massive parts to single grain; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) iron-manganese concretions and fine faint iron-manganese concretions; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A03346