IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marlow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956MA011005
  • User Pedon ID: S1956MA011005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0444
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32972
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 42.6533127
  • Std. Longitude: -72.8231277
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Franklin County, Massachusetts. Riddell farm (Summerlin), Heath township. Sample taken in open field opposite cemetery entrance on the South Road.
  • 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, active, frigid Humic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marlow
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/17/2014
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • 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:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—25

    25—76

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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
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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03320
    Bw—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03321
    BC1—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) loam; weak medium platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03322. Clay flows evident in this horizon; occasional partially disintegrated lime-bearing rock found, (ghost).
    BC2—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) and olive (5Y 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; very friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03323. Clay flows evident on peds.
    C—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) loam; weak fine platy structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A03324. Clay flows evident on peds; clay flows less prominent than in B22; plates noticeably thinner than in B23; higher percentage of coarse skeleton than in horizons above.