IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Scituate
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001RI009001
  • User Pedon ID: S2001RI009001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: RI01009001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0944
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14398
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 41.1820946
  • Std. Longitude: -71.5854874
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Block Island Rhode Island, Town of New Shoreham. 335 feet north of intersection of West Rd. and Coast Guard Rd. 250 feet west of Betty Pucky Pond.
  • Map Unit: Ss—Sudbury sandy loam
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Rhode Island
  • County: RI009—Washington
  • MLRA: 149B—Long Island-Cape Cod Coastal Lowland
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: RI600—State of Rhode Island: Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, and Washington Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41071-B5—Block Island, Rhode Island

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Morgan, M. Stolt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Humudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Scituate
  • PSC - 25 to 97 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/9/2013
  • Classifier - Donald Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Woodbridge
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy ablation till derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock over coarse-loamy basal till derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terminal moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/26/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - rain
  • Current Air Temp - 21
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MOPE6

    PRVI

    ROMU

    RUBUS

    SOLID

    Morella pensylvanica

    Prunus virginiana

    Rosa multiflora

    Rubus

    Solidago

    northern bayberry

    chokecherry

    multiflora rose

    blackberry

    goldenrod

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    very strongly coherent

    97 - 200

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox concentrations

    densic materials

    0—18

    18—69

    40—69

    40—120

    97—120

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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

    6

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    20

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    310

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    RI4266

    Kingston

    WETS
    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed, dark gray (10YR 4/1) crushed, dry; highly organic sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 25.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 25.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-45-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04969; observed in pit, small
    Ap—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dry; sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04970; observed in pit, small. About 5% of pit has some bodies of E horizon at lower Ap horizon boudary, 10YR 7/2 (dry color).
    Bw1—18 to 40 centimeters (7.1 to 15.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-45-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N04971; observed in pit, small. Discontinuous coarse bodies of 7.5YR 3/4 (dry color) at top of horizon.
    Bw2—40 to 69 centimeters (15.7 to 27.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior loamy coarse sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent medium distinct irregular light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries throughout and 1 percent coarse distinct irregular light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout and 1 percent medium distinct irregular light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04972; observed in pit, small
    BC1—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak thick platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 1 percent fine faint irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04973; observed in pit, small
    BC2—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior sandy loam; massive, and weak thick platy; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 1 percent fine prominent irregular light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout and 5 percent fine faint irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries throughout and 5 percent fine prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries throughout and 5 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N04974; observed in pit, small
    Cd—97 to 120 centimeters (38.2 to 47.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior loamy sand; weak thick platy, and massive; very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; slow permeability; extremely high excavation difficulty; 5 percent medium prominent irregular yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries throughout and 5 percent coarse faint irregular grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout and 25 percent fine prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 01N04975; observed in pit, small