IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hoosic
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980MA015004
  • User Pedon ID: S1980MA015004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1980MA015004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMASS
  • Lab Pedon # - 1980MA015004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74600
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 42.3256194
  • Std. Longitude: -72.4372500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Approximate Location: 27m NE of Rte. 9 on burrow pit face 15m above road surface (USGS-Belchertown quadrangle).
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA015—Hampshire
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA609—Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Central Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42072-C4—Belchertown, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hoosic
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/18/2013
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hinckley
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/13/1980
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: outwash derived from granite and gneiss and/or outwash derived from diorite
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Anthropogenic Feature: borrow pit
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/13/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and 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

    PIRI

    QUBE5

    Pinus rigida

    Quercus berberidifolia

    pitch pine

    scrub oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—3

    3—38

    38—127

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    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

    8

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    110

    110

    225

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; many (5.0) very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UMA80154
    Bw1—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; many (5.0) medium roots and many (5.0) fine roots; 28 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UMA80155
    Bw2—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very cobbly gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; many (5.0) medium roots and many (5.0) coarse roots; 22 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method and 23 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UMA80156
    2C1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) very gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; common (3.0) medium roots; 54 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UMA80157
    2C2—64 to 127 centimeters (25.2 to 50.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) very gravelly coarse sand; structureless single grain; loose; few (1.0) fine roots; 36 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method. Lab sample # UMA80158