IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Deerfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959MA005001
  • User Pedon ID: S1959MA005001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959MA005001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0428
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32956
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 41.9638634
  • Std. Longitude: -71.1272430
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Bristol County, Massachusetts. Town of Taunton, LaFleur farm, North Boundary Road, 1/4 mile south of Lake Winnecunnet. Pinpointed on soil survey sheet and on air photo DPN-7K-57.
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA005—Bristol
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E.J. Pedersen, G. Schmidt, C.F. Hastings, Jr., S.J. Zayach and J.R. Mott.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Aquic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Deerfield
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2012
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Deerfield
  • Classificaton Date - 8/26/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/26/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2MOSS

    BEPO

    SPIRA

    VACCI

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    Betula populifolia

    Spiraea

    Vaccinium

    Moss

    gray birch

    spirea

    blueberry

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

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—28

    66—152

    66—152

    94—152

    —28—

    —86—

    —86—

    —58—
    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

    0

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and black (10YR 2/1) loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03207
    Bw1—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sand; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03208
    Bw2—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) sand; weak fine parts to single grain; loose; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03209
    Bg1—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sand; yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium and coarse prominent and 5YR 4/ (5YR 4/ and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) mottles; single grain; loose; ; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03210, 40A03211. Iron bands are friable to very friable; iron bands are weakly cemented.
    Bg2—94 to 119 centimeters (37.0 to 46.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) sand; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) medium and coarse faint and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) mottles; single grain; loose; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03212
    Cg—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sand; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium and coarse distinct and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium prominent mottles; single grain; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A03213