IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hinckley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956MA011003
  • User Pedon ID: 56MA011003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0436
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32964
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 42.5491447
  • Std. Longitude: -72.5147858
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Franklin County, Massachusetts. Sirum Farm, Montague. Sample taken in cornfield, 1,000 feet south of highway 63 on Lake Pleasant 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, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • 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: valley
  • Landform: outwash terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—20

    20—41

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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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    90

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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; weak fine granular parts to single grain; loose; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03268
    Bw—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coarse sandy loam; single grain; loose; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03269
    BC—41 to 74 centimeters (16.1 to 29.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03270
    C—74 to 79 centimeters (29.1 to 31.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03271. Layers of stratified fine to coarse sand 2 to 3 inches thick alternating with layers of high in gravel - lower substratum of sand and gravel; skeletons mostly granitic.