IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mattapoisett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991MA023003
  • User Pedon ID: S1991MA023003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0789
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63827
  • User Project ID: 2018
  • Project Name: MLRA 144A 149B- Archive soil climate and water monitoring data
  • 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: 41.6739889
  • Std. Longitude: -70.8084833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Marion Quadrangle, town of Matta Poisett- Tinkham Forest 2250 feet E of North Street, 2500 feet S of I195
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA023—Plymouth
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P.C. Fletcher, Jim Turenne, Larry Brown, Dick Scan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, isotic, mesic, shallow, ortstein Typic Duraquods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mattapoisett
  • PSC - 25 to 47 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Norwell
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed Aeric Haplaquepts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: outwash derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock and/or till derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 1.45 percent
  • 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

    hemic soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    sapric soil materials

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox concentrations

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—3

    0—18

    3—8

    18—94

    18—94

    18—36

    36—79

    79—

    79—94

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    6/1/1991

    50

    hobo pendant ua-001

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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

    3

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    —

    24

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    90

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (5YR 2/1) mucky peat; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4600. pockets of loose grey sand; common fine and medium roots throughout; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    Oa—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0) muck; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4601. few medium and coarse roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    A—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0) loamy sand; massive; very friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4602. few medium and coarse roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    E1—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) gravelly loamy sand; massive; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 1 percent fine brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 5 percent medium gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 6 percent fine dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 6 percent fine gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4603. few fine and medium roots throughout; few fine and medium 7.5YR44 mottles; common fine and medium 10YR42 mottles; common fine and medium 10YR51 mottles
    E2—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) gravelly loamy sand; massive; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 1 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium masses of reduced iron and 6 percent fine grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 11 percent coarse very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, manganese coatings; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 5 Chlorophenol re; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4604. few fine and medium roots throughout; few fine 7.5YR46 mottles; common fine and medium 2.5Y52 mottles; common coarse 10YR32 mottles
    Bh—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); black (5YR 2/1) gravelly loamy sand; massive; friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 5 percent medium dusky red (7.5R 3/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 6 percent fine dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 5 Chlorophenol re; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4605. common fine and medium roots throughout; common fine and medium 7.5YR32 mottles
    Bsm1—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) gravelly sand; massive; very firm, strongly cemented by iron; 5 percent medium brown (10YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 6 percent fine brown (10YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent medium reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 5 Chlorophenol re; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4606. common fine and medium 10YR43 mottles; common medium 5YR44 mottles
    Bsm2—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly sand; massive; very firm, weakly cemented by iron; 5 percent medium light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, masses of reduced iron and 6 percent fine light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, masses of reduced iron and 15 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4607. common fine and medium 2.5Y53 mottles; many fine and medium 7.5YR46 mottles
    2Cd—79 to 94 centimeters (31.1 to 37.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) gravelly loamy sand; massive; firm; 5 percent medium yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 6 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 6 percent fine grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 91P4608. common fine and medium 10YR56 mottles; common fine and medium 2.5Y52 mottles