IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hinckley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956MA011002
  • User Pedon ID: 56MA011002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956MA011002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0435
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32963
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 42.5605316
  • Std. Longitude: -72.5300598
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Franklin County, Massachusetts. Wilburn property, Montague. Sample taken 300 feet northeast from intersection of Old Northfield Road and west of Mohawk Riding Club Road.
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA011—Franklin
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA011—Franklin County, Massachusetts
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42072-E5—Greenfield, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Edwood J. Pedersen, Steve Davidson, Fredrick A. Filios, Robert F. Reiske, and William H. Coates.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hinckley
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/10/2015
  • Classifier - Donald Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hinckley
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy and gravelly glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: outwash plain on valley
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    BEPO

    PIRI

    Betula populifolia

    Pinus rigida

    gray birch

    pitch pine

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—20

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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

    0

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    102

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03264. Rootlets hold soil together; small amount of gravel present.
    Bw—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03265
    BC—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A03266
    C—61 to 66 centimeters (24.0 to 26.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) and light gray (10YR 7/2) and very pale brown (10YR 7/3) coarse sand; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03267. Coarse skeleton throughout profile mostly granitic.