IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brimfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004MA013001
  • User Pedon ID: S2004MA013001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: MA04013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N1034
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16878
  • 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: 42.1509171
  • Std. Longitude: -72.1567764
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 500 ft East of East Rd and 300 Ft South of I90 in the Town of Brimfield, MA.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA013—Hampden
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA607—Hampden County, Massachusetts, Central Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Shawn McVey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, parasesquic, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brimfield (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 29 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/3/2013
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brimfield
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: ablation till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent moderate weathered schist, unspecified at 46cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Partridge Formation formation of the Obr group.
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 180- to 500-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/30/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 24
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    BEPA

    CARYA

    CHIMA

    GAYLU

    MIRE

    QUAL

    QURU

    VAAN

    VAAN

    VIAC

    Acer rubrum

    Betula papyrifera

    Carya

    Chimaphila

    Gaylussacia

    Mitchella repens

    Quercus alba

    Quercus rubra

    Vaccinium angustifolium

    Vaccinium angustifolium

    Viburnum acerifolium

    red maple

    paper birch

    hybrid hickory

    prince's pine

    huckleberry

    partridgeberry

    white oak

    northern red oak

    lowbush blueberry

    lowbush blueberry

    mapleleaf viburnum

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

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    46 - 200

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    4—5

    5—46

    46—100

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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

    23

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    289.6

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    45

    1185

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    160

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    Oe—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) crushed, black (7.5YR 2.5/1) crushed, dry; moderately decomposed plant material; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 50.0 very fine high-continuity irregular and 50.0 fine high-continuity irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05548; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A—4 to 5 centimeters (1.6 to 2.0 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) crushed, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed, dry; highly organic fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 25.0 very fine roots throughout; 30.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 3 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N05549; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) crushed, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) crushed, dry; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 25.0 medium roots throughout and 20.0 fine roots throughout; 30.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular and 15.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 6 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; strongly acid, pH 5.4, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05550; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) crushed, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) crushed, dry; very channery fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 36 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; strongly acid, pH 5.4, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05551; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—38 to 46 centimeters (15.0 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) crushed, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) crushed, dry; very channery fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine low-continuity irregular pores; 39 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; strongly acid, pH 5.3, bromcresol green; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05552; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Rj—46 to 100 centimeters (18.1 to 39.4 inches); very slow permeability; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in pit, small