IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hadley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1970MA015007
  • User Pedon ID: 70MA015007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1289
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34898
  • 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: 42.3946056
  • Std. Longitude: -72.5994889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hatfield
  • Map Unit: 96A—Hadley silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA015—Hampshire
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA609—Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Central Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42072-D5—Mount Toby, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. R. Mott, J. A. Ferwerda
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hadley
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/30/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hadley
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Alluvial sediments
  • Landform: terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    0—49

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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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    37

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    Ap1—0 to 26 centimeters (0.0 to 10.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate very fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium dendritic tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Ap2—26 to 49 centimeters (10.2 to 19.3 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; silt; weak fine platy, and weak medium platy, and moderate fine platy, and moderate medium platy structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine dendritic tubular and 1.0 fine dendritic tubular and 3.0 coarse dendritic tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt wavy boundary.
    C1—49 to 61 centimeters (19.3 to 24.0 inches); variegated 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 coarse dendritic tubular and 3.0 coarse dendritic tubular and 1.0 coarse vesicular and 2.0 coarse vesicular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. "Horizon is a transition mixed with Ap material"
    C2—61 to 77 centimeters (24.0 to 30.3 inches); variegated olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine dendritic tubular and 1.0 coarse vesicular and 2.0 coarse vesicular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. "10YR 3/2 in root channels or krotovina"
    C3—77 to 121 centimeters (30.3 to 47.6 inches); variegated 70 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and 10 percent olive (5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; silt; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine dendritic tubular and 1.0 coarse vesicular and 2.0 coarse vesicular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. "20% of root channels are 10YR3/2 "
    C4—121 to 178 centimeters (47.6 to 70.1 inches); variegated olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; silt loam; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5. "10YR3/2 in a few root channels"