IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brimfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005MA013001
  • User Pedon ID: S2005MA013001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: MA05013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0109
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16870
  • 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: 42.0720558
  • Std. Longitude: -72.2429962
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 75 feet West of Hitchcock Rd and about 1,220 feet North of McBride Rd, in an area of Brimfield State Forest, Wales, Massachusetts.
  • 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: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brimfield
  • PSC - 7 to 42 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/2013
  • Classifier - Donald Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brimfield
  • Classificaton Date - 10/18/2004
  • 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: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent moderate weathered schist, unspecified at 42cm 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: 10/18/2004 (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 - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 10
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Oe

    A

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    7

    13

    7

    13

    42

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    4.2

    4.7
    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Oe

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    7

    13

    7

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    42

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Oe

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    Bw

    0

    7

    13

    7

    13

    42

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    BELE

    GAYLU

    HAVI4

    QURU

    QUVE

    VIAC

    Acer rubrum

    Betula lenta

    Gaylussacia

    Hamamelis virginiana

    Quercus rubra

    Quercus velutina

    Viburnum acerifolium

    red maple

    sweet birch

    huckleberry

    American witchhazel

    northern red oak

    black oak

    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

    42 - 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

    7—13

    13—42

    42—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

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    Oe—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) crushed, very dark gray (5YR 3/1) crushed, dry; moderately decomposed plant material; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 40.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 30.0 fine roots throughout; 50.0 very fine high-continuity irregular and 50.0 fine high-continuity irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00501; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. Bromcresol green confirms pH 5.0.
    A—7 to 13 centimeters (2.8 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/2) crushed, dry; highly organic loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 15.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 medium roots throughout and 15.0 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; 30.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 150-200-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; strongly acid, pH 5.1, chlorophenol red; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 05N00502; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. Horizon is absent in some areas. Really just occurs as "pockets".
    Bw—13 to 42 centimeters (5.1 to 16.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, dry; very stony fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 very coarse roots throughout and 15.0 medium roots throughout and 15.0 fine roots throughout and 10.0 coarse roots throughout; 15.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular and 15.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 380-450-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 31 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; very abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 05N00503; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Rj—42 to 100 centimeters (16.5 to 39.4 inches); bedrock; very slow permeability; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in pit, small