IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paxton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957MA023003
  • User Pedon ID: S1957MA023003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0432
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32960
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 42.0096970
  • Std. Longitude: -70.8897400
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Pond Street, Halifax. Western slope of knoll opposite Binns place; pinpointed on soil survey photograph DPT 10K-111.
  • Map Unit: 315B—Scituate gravelly sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA023—Plymouth
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA023—Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42070-A8—Whitman, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Edwood J. Pedersen, William H. Coates, Rino J. Roffinoli, John R. Mott, and Charles W. Upham.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Paxton
  • PSC - 25 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Essex
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: knoll
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1957 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    66 - 94

    - 28 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    aquic conditions

    0—20

    20—66

    66—

    66—94

    66—94

    —20—

    —46—

    —-

    —28—

    —28—
    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

    10

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    —

    17.8

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    217

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) coarse sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03243. Temperature 22 degrees Celsius at 7 inches.
    Bw1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) coarse sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03244
    Bw2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) coarse sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03245
    Bw3—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) coarse sandy loam; moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; coarse distinct ; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03246. Mottles are yellowish red; temperature 20 degrees Celsius at 24 inches.
    Cd—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) gravelly coarse sandy loam; coarse distinct mottles; strong very coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 5 percent coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron at top of horizon; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A03247. Contains few to common coarse distinct yellowish red mottles in the upper 4 inches; temperature 18 1/2 degrees Celsius at 36 inches.