IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Limerick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MA015005
  • User Pedon ID: 70MA015005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1970MA015005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1294
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34903
  • 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: 42.3313675
  • Std. Longitude: -72.5939560
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Hadley. Precisely located on soil survey air photo DPB 6H-118.
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA015—Hampshire
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42072-C5—Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. R. Mott, S. J. Zayach
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Limerick
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/5/2012
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Limerick
  • Classificaton Date - 6/10/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Landform: flood plain
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/10/1970 (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

    URTIC

    Urtica

    nettle

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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

    0—30

    0—160

    51—104

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    —160—

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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

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silt loam; 1 percent greenish gray (5GY 5/1) medium distinct and 1 percent brown (10YR 4/3) medium distinct mottles; massive parts to subangular blocky; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09827
    C1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) very fine sandy loam; 3 percent olive gray (5Y 4/2) medium distinct and 3 percent olive (5Y 5/4) medium distinct and 3 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) medium distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09828. Mottle centers are 10YR 2/2.
    C2—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) stratified silt loam to stratified fine sand to very fine sand; 21 percent black (5YR 2/1) medium prominent and 21 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) medium prominent mottles; massive; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A09829
    C3—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) stratified silt loam to stratified fine sand to very fine sand; 21 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) medium prominent and 21 percent black (5YR 2/1) medium prominent mottles; massive; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A09830
    C4—104 to 160 centimeters (40.9 to 63.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) stratified silt loam to stratified fine sand to very fine sand; 21 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) medium prominent and 21 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) medium prominent mottles; massive; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A09831. Dark reddish-brown mottles have black centers.