IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Massena
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NY097002
  • User Pedon ID: 88NY097002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0421
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61525
  • 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: 42.5419426
  • Std. Longitude: -76.8008347
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Finger Lakes National Forest, Compartment 5, Schuyler County, New York.
  • State: New York
  • County: NY097—Schuyler
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S.D. DeGloria.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, subactive, nonacid, mesic Aeric Haplaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Massena
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Appleton
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • 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

    5

    500

    315

    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02368
    EB—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and platy structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02369
    Btg1—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) channery silt loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 89P02370. few clay films surface features; common medium prominent 10YR56 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233018; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233018
    Btg2—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) channery silt loam; 11 percent gray (10YR 5/1) medium distinct and 11 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 89P02371. few clay films surface features; common medium distinct 10YR51 mottles; common medium prominent 10YR46 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233019; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233019
    BC—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; 1 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) medium faint mottles; moderate medium platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 89P02372. few medium faint 2.5Y44 mottles
    C—323 centimeters (127.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) channery silt loam; moderate medium platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P02373