IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): BERNARDSTON
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993MA011002
  • User Pedon ID: S1993MA011002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0700
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66043
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 42.5877762
  • Std. Longitude: -72.5363922
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Bernardstron, MA; 1100 feet N of Eden Trail from 500 feet W of intersection with Eden Trail Bridge Rd.
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scanu, Pytlik
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bernardston
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/29/1993
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/29/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: F5-4D
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    11

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    262

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) channery silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P04828
    AB—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) channery loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P04829
    Cd1—23 to 31 centimeters (9.1 to 12.2 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) channery loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; weak medium platy parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 medium vesicular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P04830
    Cd2—31 to 51 centimeters (12.2 to 20.1 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) channery loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; weak medium platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine vesicular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P04831
    Cd3—51 to 89 centimeters (20.1 to 35.0 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) channery loam; 1 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) medium prominent and 1 percent olive gray (5Y 4/2) coarse distinct and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium prominent mottles; massive; very firm; 0.5 medium vesicular pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P04832
    Cd4—89 to 114 centimeters (35.0 to 44.9 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) and very dark gray (N 3/0) channery loam; 1 percent very dark gray (5YR 3/1) fine prominent mottles; massive; very firm; 0.5 fine and medium vesicular pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P04833
    Cd5—114 to 140 centimeters (44.9 to 55.1 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) and very dark gray (N 3/0) channery loam; 10 percent very dark gray (5YR 3/1) medium prominent mottles; weak thin platy structure; very firm; 3.0 medium tubular pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 93P04834
    Cd5—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 93P04835. last 13 cm were augered.