IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ludlow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991MA011004
  • User Pedon ID: S1991MA011004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0822
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63860
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 42.5389755
  • Std. Longitude: -72.5861999
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 150 feet S of Pine Nook Rd from 6200 feet N of Int. with Keith Cross Rd. Greenfield Mass. Quadrangle
  • Map Unit: 390B—Ludlow silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA011—Franklin
  • MLRA: 145—Connecticut Valley
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA011—Franklin County, Massachusetts
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42072-E5—Greenfield, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Averill, Hinds, Scann, Brown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ludlow
  • PSC - 29 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/11/2014
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Woodbridge-Like
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Aquic Dystrochrept
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: brown coarse-loamy lodgment till over red coarse-loamy lodgment till derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    sapric soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    densic contact

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    densic materials

    redox concentrations

    0—3

    0—14

    56—

    56—89

    56—160

    56—160

    —3—

    —14—

    —-

    —33—

    —104—

    —104—
    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

    —

    —

    171

    —

    45

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Oa—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (5YR 2/1) highly decomposed plant material; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P4973
    A—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium and coarse roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4974. many very fine and fine roots; many medium and coarse roots
    Bw—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4975
    BC—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) loam; 1 percent reddish gray (5YR 5/2) fine and medium and 1 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 11 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4976
    Cd—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) loam; 1 percent pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2) fine and medium faint and 11 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine and medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium vesicular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4977. Streaks on coarse prism faces interior (7.5YR 6/2), Exterior (5YR 4/4) Fine Sandy Loam;
    2Cd1—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) gravelly loam; 1 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) fine prominent and 11 percent reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) fine and medium prominent and 11 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/3) medium faint mottles; moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 0.5 medium tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 19 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4978. Streaks on coarse prism faces Interior (7.5YR 6/2), Exterior (5YR 4/4)
    2Cd2—89 to 160 centimeters (35.0 to 63.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) gravelly loam; 11 percent reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) fine and medium prominent and 11 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/3) medium faint mottles; moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 0.5 medium tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 13 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P4979. clay skins on pores