IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Broadbrook
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977MA005006
  • User Pedon ID: S1977MA005006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4188
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40378
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 41.5408134
  • Std. Longitude: -71.0283585
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Dartmouth. Field 500 feet east of Division Road. 3/4 mile north of Horseneck Road.
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA005—Bristol
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA603—Bristol County, Massachusetts, Southern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. J. Roffinoli.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Broadbrook
  • PSC - 25 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/2/2014
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Broadbrook
  • Classificaton Date - 5/26/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Landscape: drumlin field
  • Landform: drumlin
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/26/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    74 - 191

    - 117 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    lithologic discontinuity

    densic materials

    aquic conditions

    0—23

    23—74

    74—

    74—191

    74—191

    74—191

    —23—

    —51—

    —-

    —117—

    —117—

    —117—
    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

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    37

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A31969
    Bw1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A31970. Many sand grains on ped faces.
    Bw2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); loam; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A31971
    Bw3—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 0.5 roots top of horizon; 7 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A31972
    2Cd1—74 to 107 centimeters (29.1 to 42.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 32 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A31973
    2Cd2—107 to 137 centimeters (42.1 to 53.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 17 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A31974
    2Cd3—137 to 191 centimeters (53.9 to 75.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) gravelly sandy loam; massive; very firm; 28 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A31975