IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nellis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960MA003005
  • User Pedon ID: S1960MA003005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0439
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32967
  • 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: 42.3833160
  • Std. Longitude: -73.3009262
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Don Ziegler farm, 100 feet east of Undermountain Road, 1.2 miles north of Massachusetts Route 183 at Tanglewood, Lenox, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, aerial photo DPM-3K-174.
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA003—Berkshire
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA003—Berkshire County, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E.J. Pedersen, D.D. Bohrer, F.A. Filios, S.J. Zayach, and D.C. Fuller.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nellis
  • PSC - 10 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lenox
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/1960 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03284
    B21—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; 2-76-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03285
    B22—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03286
    C11—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) gravelly loam, gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03287
    C12—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) gravelly loam; olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine faint and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) mottles; weak medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 2-76-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A03288
    C13—81 to 112 centimeters (31.9 to 44.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) loam; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots; brown (7.5YR 4/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4); 2-76-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 23 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03289
    C2—112 to 140 centimeters (44.1 to 55.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly silt loam; olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine faint and gray (5Y 5/1) mottles; massive; firm; 2-76-150 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 18 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A03290