IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Macomber
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987MA003003
  • User Pedon ID: 87MA003003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987MA003003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0588
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59883
  • Print Date: 10/31/2024

    • 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: 42.7024994
  • Std. Longitude: -73.2613907
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Berlin quad Berkshire County, MA: 50 meters NE (upslope) of Rt. 2 20 meters upslope from dirt Rd 1.3 km S of NY State Line.
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA003—Berkshire
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hundley, S., Gregnolati, M.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid, shallow Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Macomber
  • PSC - 25 to 37 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Macomber
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Dystrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microdepression
  • Microrelief Elevation: 10
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BEPA

    FAGR

    QURU

    Betula papyrifera

    Fagus grandifolia

    Quercus rubra

    paper birch

    American beech

    northern red oak

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

    paralithic contact

    albic horizon

    cambic horizon

    0—37

    4—7

    7—37

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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

    22

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    424

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    225

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    1Oa—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); 70 percent black (5YR 2/1) interior and 30 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) interior muck; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 medium and coarse roots and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.5, phenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P03094; moist when described;. common medium and coarse roots; many fine roots throughout
    1E—4 to 7 centimeters (1.6 to 2.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots; 0.1 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 1 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, phenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P03095; moist when described;. (5YR 2/1) Oa material tongueing into horizon, with pockets and root channels of same material.; many fine roots; few medium roots throughout
    1Bs—7 to 22 centimeters (2.8 to 8.7 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior slaty silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 medium roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 1 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, phenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P03096; moist when described;. (2.5Y 5/6) on ped faces and some matrix in lower part micro size pellets that appear coated.; many fine roots; many medium roots throughout
    1BC—22 to 37 centimeters (8.7 to 14.6 inches); 50 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and 30 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior and 20 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior extremely slaty loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, phenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P03097; moist when described;. few very fine and fine roots; few medium and coarse roots throughout
    2Cr—37 to 96 centimeters (14.6 to 37.8 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) interior; 0.5 very fine and fine roots in cracks; fragments. Lab sample # 87P03098; moist when described;. 65% (5GY 4/1) and 40% (5GY 5/1) in lower part of Cr. This horizon layer is strongly fractured and phyllite with small slaky fragments. The Cr is strongly bedded with intermittent beds varying in degrees and hardness. Some soil and coats in f; few very fine and fine roots in cracks