IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ridgebury
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977MA005003
  • User Pedon ID: 1977MA005003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1977MA005003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4185
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40375
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 41.5810889
  • Std. Longitude: -71.0830778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Westport. 100 feet east of Route 88, 0.7 miles north of Hix Bridge Road.
  • Map Unit: 73A—Whitman fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, extremely stony
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA005—Bristol
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA603—Bristol County, Massachusetts, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41071-E1—Westport (digital), Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. J. Roffinoli
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, acid, mesic Aeric Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ridgebury
  • PSC - 25 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/9/2014
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ridgebury
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till
  • Landscape: drumlin field
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/24/1977 (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

    VACO

    Vaccinium corymbosum

    highbush blueberry

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    79 - 193

    - 114 -

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

    fibric soil materials

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    densic materials

    densic contact

    0—5

    0—25

    25—79

    25—193

    79—193

    79—

    —5—

    —25—

    —54—

    —168—

    —114—

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    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

    4

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    27.5

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    165

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); peat; fragments. Lab sample # 40A31948. Not sampled. Layer of loose over matted leaves and twigs.
    A—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A31949
    Bw—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; massive; firm; 3.0 roots; 1 percent medium prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 1 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A31950
    Bg—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; weak coarse platy structure; firm; 20 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A31951
    Cd1—79 to 132 centimeters (31.1 to 52.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) stratified silt loam; weak coarse platy structure; firm; 21 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent coarse prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 8 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A31952
    Cd2—132 to 193 centimeters (52.0 to 76.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) very cobbly silt loam; weak coarse platy structure; firm; 1 percent medium prominent brown (7.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 1 percent medium prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 17 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A31953