IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Yalesville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991MA011005
  • User Pedon ID: S1991MA011005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991MA011005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0823
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63861
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.5191650
  • Std. Longitude: -72.5755539
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 150 feet E of Pine Nook Rd from 2200 feet S of intersection With Keith Cross Road, Greenfield Massachusetts Quadrangle
  • Map Unit: 389A—Wilbraham silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA011—Franklin
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA011—Franklin County, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Averill, Hinds, Scann, Brown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Yalesville
  • PSC - 40 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/2015
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chatfield-Like
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrept
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Drainage Class: 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    COMA19

    GAYLU

    PIST

    QUERC

    TSCA

    Convallaria majuscula

    Gaylussacia

    Pinus strobus

    Quercus

    Tsuga canadensis

    American lily-of-the-valley

    huckleberry

    eastern white pine

    oak

    eastern hemlock

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

    hemic soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    sapric soil materials

    cambic horizon

    densic materials

    densic contact

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—3

    0—16

    3—8

    16—55

    55—80

    55—

    55—

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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

    5

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    98

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    90

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 91P4980. 1/2" leaf 6 pine needles
    Oa—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); highly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 91P4981
    A—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak granular, and structureless medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4982. few coarse roots; common medium roots
    Bw1—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4983. few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bw2—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4984. few very fine and fine roots
    2Cd1—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4985
    2Cd2—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; moderate fine and medium platy structure; very firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P4986
    3R—79 centimeters (31.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.