IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marlow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956MA011004
  • User Pedon ID: S1956MA011004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0443
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32971
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 42.6799774
  • Std. Longitude: -72.8161850
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Franklin County, Massachusetts. Dana Malone farm, Heath. Samples taken in open hayfield approximately 100 feet south of intersection of Bray Road and Colrain Stage Road; open field adjacent to cemetery.
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA011—Franklin
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA011—Franklin County, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Edwood J. Pedersen, Steve Davidson, Fredrick A. Filios, Robert F. Reiske, Hermon U. Goodell, and William H. Coates.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marlow
  • PSC - 25 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/18/2014
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Marlow
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    0—23

    23—81

    81—

    —23—

    —58—

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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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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03315
    Bw1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03316
    Bw2—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak coarse platy structure; very friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03317. Silt and clay flows on some ped faces.
    BC—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) rubbed fine sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; very friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03318. Clay skins prominent on ped faces.
    Cd—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) fine sandy loam; very coarse platy structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03319. Clay skins not as evident as in B23 horizon; coarse skeleton 5 to 10 percent throughout profile consisting of schistose and phyllite gravel; occasional large stone in profile.