IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cabot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982MA011001
  • User Pedon ID: S1982MA011001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UMASS
  • Lab Pedon # - 1982MA011001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74614
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 42.6530500
  • Std. Longitude: -72.6746778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Power line plot in Shelburne Falls, Franklin County, in an orchard on a 2-3 percent slope.
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA011—Franklin
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA011—Franklin County, Massachusetts
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42072-F6—Colrain, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, active, nonacid, frigid, shallow Aeric Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cabot
  • PSC - 0 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/25/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cabot
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, nonacid, frigid Typic Fragiaquepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/1982
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy till
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/19/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - crop trees
  • 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

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    46 - 77

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—13

    13—46

    46—77

    46—77

    46—77

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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

    2.5

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    275

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    315

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular parts to weak platy structure; friable; common (3.0) fine roots; 1 percent fine distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 4 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UMA82073
    Bw—13 to 26 centimeters (5.1 to 10.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; common (3.0) fine roots; 10 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses and 12 percent medium distinct very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 12 percent coarse distinct very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 4 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UMA82074
    BC—26 to 46 centimeters (10.2 to 18.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; common (3.0) very fine roots; 12 percent medium olive (5Y 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 12 percent coarse olive (5Y 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 4 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UMA82075
    2Cd—46 to 77 centimeters (18.1 to 30.3 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) loam; structureless massive; firm; few (0.1) very fine roots; 10 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium faint olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 4 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by weighed method; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified. Lab sample # UMA82076