IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ridgebury
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957MA023004
  • User Pedon ID: S1957MA023004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0451
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32979
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 42.0098639
  • Std. Longitude: -70.8907500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Pond Street, Halifax. At base of knoll opposite Binns farm, pinpointed on the soil survey photograph DPT 10K-111.
  • Map Unit: 70A—Ridgebury fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 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: Loamy, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic, shallow Aeric Endoaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ridgebury
  • PSC - 0 to 25 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/21/2012
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ridgebury
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till over sandy lodgment till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: knoll
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    densic contact

    densic materials

    13—99

    13—132

    25—

    25—61

    —86—

    —119—

    —-

    —36—
    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

    2

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    16.1

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    230

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03372
    Bg—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) sandy loam; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03373
    Cdg1—25 to 61 centimeters (9.8 to 24.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) sandy loam; massive parts to weak very coarse subangular blocky; very hard, firm, strongly cemented; coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03374
    2Cdg2—61 to 69 centimeters (24.0 to 27.2 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) gravelly loamy coarse sand; massive parts to very coarse subangular blocky; extremely hard; coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03375
    2Cg1—69 to 99 centimeters (27.2 to 39.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) gravelly loamy coarse sand; massive; slightly hard; coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03376
    2Cg2—99 to 132 centimeters (39.0 to 52.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A03377