IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leicester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958MA015004
  • User Pedon ID: S1958MA015004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0437
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32965
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 42.2688675
  • Std. Longitude: -72.2808914
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Ware township, pasture on Juda farm 0.6 of a mile north of Route 9. Soil survey photograph DPB-3H-71, coordinates 9.6X - 3.7Y inches, scale 1:15840. Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA015—Hampshire
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA609—Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Central Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42072-C3—Winsor Dam, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Edwood J. Pedersen, Joseph Kubota, Fredrick A Filios, and Stephen J. Zayach.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Aeric Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leicester
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/4/2012
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Leicester
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till derived from igneous and metamorphic rock
  • Landform: hill
  • Microfeature: closed depression
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/22/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    cambic horizon

    reduced matrix

    0—18

    0—107

    18—86

    18—107

    —18—

    —107—

    —68—

    —89—
    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

    4

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    219

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    116

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (5YR 2/1) mucky fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03272. Contains some fine granular peds.
    AB—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 40 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and black (2.5Y 2/1) fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03273
    Bw1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine sandy loam; yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine distinct and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) mottles; weak medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03274
    Bw2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine sandy loam; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) fine distinct and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) mottles; weak medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03275
    Bw3—58 to 86 centimeters (22.8 to 33.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) gravelly fine sandy loam; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium and coarse faint mottles; weak medium platy parts to weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03276
    Cg—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) gravelly loamy sand; yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium prominent and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine and medium distinct mottles; platy structure; firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A03277