IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brancroft
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MA009015
  • User Pedon ID: S1978MA009015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMASS
  • Lab Pedon # - 1978MA009015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74575
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 42.6568167
  • Std. Longitude: -70.8097083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 225 meters N of Essex Road and Northfate Rode intersection (USGS-Ipswich quadrangle)
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA009—Essex
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA605—Essex County, Massachusetts, Northern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42070-F7—Ipswich, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brancroft
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/2013
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boxford
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Aquic Dystric Eutrochrepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/1978
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glaciomarine deposits
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—23

    23—43

    43—165

    51—165

    —23—

    —20—

    —122—

    —114—
    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

    —

    —

    9

    9

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    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; many (5.0) fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UMA07801
    Bw1—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common (3.0) fine roots; many pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UMA07802
    Bw2—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 70 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist,; 10 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent fine distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, manganese masses; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UMA07803
    2Bt3—43 to 51 centimeters (16.9 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (3.0) fine roots; 38 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist,; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UMA07804. patchy - phpvsfiid 1091897; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091897
    2Bt1—51 to 86 centimeters (20.1 to 33.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate very coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; few (0.5) fine roots; 38 percent on surfaces along root channels and 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and 70 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 5 percent black (5YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings on surfaces along root channels and 5 percent black (5YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds and 10 percent fine prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron on faces of peds and 10 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds and 12 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron on surfaces along root channels and 13 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, masses of reduced iron on faces of peds; 0 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UMA07805. continuous - phpvsfiid 1091898; continuous - phpvsfiid 1091899; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091900; continuous - phpvsfiid 1091898; continuous - phpvsfiid 1091899; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091900
    2Bt2—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm; few (0.5) fine roots; 38 percent black (5YR 2/1), moist, on surfaces along root channels and 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent black (5YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds and 5 percent black (5YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings on surfaces along root channels and 25 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, masses of reduced iron on faces of peds; 0 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UMA07806. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1091901; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091903; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1091902; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1091901; patchy - phpvsfiid 1091903; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1091902
    2BCt3—112 to 165 centimeters (44.1 to 65.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; weak medium platy parts to weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent medium prominent black (5Y 2/1), moist, manganese masses and 25 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, on faces of peds; 0 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method. Lab sample # UMA07807. continuous - phpvsfiid 1091904; continuous - phpvsfiid 1091904