IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Birdsall
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007MA023002
  • User Pedon ID: S07MA023002-Birdsall
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0686
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19119
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 41.9735832
  • Std. Longitude: -70.9033356
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In the town of Halifax, in a hay field, 151 meters west of Walnut Street, 420 meters east of the Taunton River, and 373 meters northwest of the Winnetuxet River.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA023—Plymouth
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA023—Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41070-H8—Bridgewater, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Al Averill, Bill Taylor, and Rob Tunstead
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Typic Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Birdsall
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Typic Humaquepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 229 cm of Depth to standing water


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy glaciofluvial deposits derived from igneous rock over coarse-silty glaciolacustrine deposits derived from igneous rock
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: very rare flooding for extremely brief periods begining in jan
  • Ponding: rare ponding for very brief periods begining in jan
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 365
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/31/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 77-23
  • Plant Association Name: Hayland
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 30
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    anthric saturation

    0—25

    25—178

    25—137

    25—137

    25—178

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    —-

    —-

    —-

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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

    1

    —

    —

    10.7

    —

    270

    1273

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    MA6262

    Pembroke

    WETS Station
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N04191; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg—25 to 37 centimeters (9.8 to 14.6 inches); 65 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior and 35 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3 percent fine prominent cylindrical noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries on surfaces along root channels; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N04192; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BCg1—37 to 50 centimeters (14.6 to 19.7 inches); 70 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and 30 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) interior very fine sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; 5 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 5 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N04193; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BCg2—50 to 70 centimeters (19.7 to 27.6 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior fine sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; 15 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 15 percent very coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N04194; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BCg3—70 to 92 centimeters (27.6 to 36.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior fine sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; 3 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-30 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N04195; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BCg4—92 to 100 centimeters (36.2 to 39.4 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) interior silt loam; structureless massive; firm; 2 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 3 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N04196; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BCg5—100 to 137 centimeters (39.4 to 53.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior fine sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; 5 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N04197; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—137 to 161 centimeters (53.9 to 63.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior fine sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N04198; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—161 to 178 centimeters (63.4 to 70.1 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) interior very fine sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Cg—178 to 229 centimeters (70.1 to 90.2 inches); gray (N 5/), interior silt loam; structureless massive; firm; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket