IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Limerick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MA015006
  • User Pedon ID: 70MA015006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1970MA015006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1295
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34904
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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, J. A. Ferwerda.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Aquic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Limerick
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Winooski
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/1970
  • 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: 6/11/1970 (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

    CIAR4

    PHAR3

    URTIC

    Cirsium arvense

    Phalaris arundinacea

    Urtica

    Canada thistle

    reed canarygrass

    nettle

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

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    endosaturation

    0—30

    43—180

    43—180

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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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    34

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    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09832
    Ap2—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine to medium low-continuity tubular and 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09833. There is a 1" thick discontinuous platy lens in the lower part of olive gray (5Y 4/2) with common fine and medium prominent dark greenish-gray (5GY 4/1) mottles.
    Cg1—43 to 74 centimeters (16.9 to 29.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09834
    Cg2—74 to 81 centimeters (29.1 to 31.9 inches); dark greenish gray (5GY 4/1) and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silt loam; 21 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) medium and coarse prominent and 21 percent dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) medium and coarse prominent and 21 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) medium and coarse prominent mottles; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09835. Varves of dark greenish-gray 5GY 4/1 silt and dark grayish-brown 2.5Y 4/2 and light brownish-gray 2.5Y 6/2 very fine sand.
    Cg3—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); dark greenish gray (5GY 4/1) and dark gray (5Y 4/1) silt loam; 21 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium and coarse prominent and 21 percent very dusky red (2.5YR 2/2) medium and coarse prominent mottles; massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine low-continuity tubular and 21.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09836
    Cg4—109 to 180 centimeters (42.9 to 70.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) very fine sandy loam; 1 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine prominent and 21 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) fine and medium prominent and 21 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) fine and medium prominent mottles; massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine low-continuity tubular and 21.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A09837