IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brimfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005MA027001
  • User Pedon ID: S2005MA027001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: MA05027001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0398
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17275
  • 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: 42.2577782
  • Std. Longitude: -72.1313858
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 1 mile North of Wigwam Rd from Rte 67, and about 300 feet West of Wegwam Rd adn 300 feet South of Power Line, in the town of West Brookfield.
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA027—Worcester
  • 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: MA615—Worcester County, Massachusetts, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42072-C1—North Brookfield, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Taylor, Shawn McVey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, parasesquic, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brimfield
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/20/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brimfield
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: ablation till
  • 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: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderate weathered schist, unspecified at 46cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Partridge Formation formation of the Obr group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/27/2005 (entry creation date)
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIST

    QURU

    Pinus strobus

    Quercus rubra

    eastern white pine

    northern red oak

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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

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—3

    3—46

    46—

    46—

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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

    5

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    254

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    180

    1165

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    160

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (5YR 2.5/1) crushed, dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) crushed, dry; highly organic fine sandy loam; weak fine granular, and weak very fine granular structure; soft, friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 30.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02195; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—3 to 25 centimeters (1.2 to 9.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) crushed, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) crushed, dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 20.0 medium roots throughout and 25.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02196; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—25 to 40 centimeters (9.8 to 15.7 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) crushed, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) crushed, dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak very fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 10.0 medium roots throughout and 15.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02197; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—40 to 46 centimeters (15.7 to 18.1 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) crushed, yellowish red (5YR 5/8) crushed, dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular, and weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; very abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02198; observed in pit, small
    2R—46 centimeters (18.1 inches); bedrock; very slow permeability; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in pit, small