IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mashpee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007MA023004
  • User Pedon ID: S2007MA023004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007MA023004-Mashpee
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0688
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19121
  • User Project ID: 2018
  • Project Name: MLRA 144A 149B- Archive soil climate and water monitoring data
  • 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: 41.7493057
  • Std. Longitude: -70.7724152
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In the town of Wareham, 421 meters due west of Squirrel Island Road, 175 meters due north of Cohackett Brook.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA023—Plymouth
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA023—Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41070-F7—Marion, Massachusetts
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Al Averill, Bill Taylor, and Rob Tunstead
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, isotic, mesic Aquic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mashpee
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2013
  • Classifier - Marissa Theve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mashpee
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, isotic, mesic Typic Endoaquods
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • Field Measured Properties: 118 cm of Depth to observed water.


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy glaciofluvial deposits derived from igneous rock
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Ponding: occasional ponding for long periods begining in jan
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 365
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 1-115
  • Plant Association Name: Tree cover
  • 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 - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 31
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    CHIMA

    CLAL3

    LIST2

    PIRI

    QUAL

    VACO

    Acer rubrum

    Chimaphila

    Clethra alnifolia

    Liquidambar styraciflua

    Pinus rigida

    Quercus alba

    Vaccinium corymbosum

    red maple

    prince's pine

    coastal sweetpepperbush

    sweetgum

    pitch pine

    white oak

    highbush blueberry

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

    hemic soil materials

    ochric epipedon

    sapric soil materials

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    spodic horizon

    0—5

    0—23

    5—12

    17—23

    23—38

    46—86

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    8/2/2007

    8/2/2007

    50

    30

    hobo pendant ua-001

    hobo pendant ua-001

    16

    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

    1

    4.6

    110

    1225

    201

    9.4

    20.5

    -1.9

    MA6938

    Rochester

    WETS Station

    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 very coarse roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face highly decomposed plant material; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 very coarse roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AE—12 to 17 centimeters (4.7 to 6.7 inches); 50 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 50 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; negative to alpha-alpha dipyridyl; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Eg—17 to 23 centimeters (6.7 to 9.1 inches); 80 percent gray (10YR 6/1) and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; negative to alpha-alpha dipyridyl; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bhs—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); 60 percent very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) and 40 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) loamy fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; negative to alpha-alpha dipyridyl; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—38 to 46 centimeters (15.0 to 18.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loamy very fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; negative to alpha-alpha dipyridyl; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs1—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); 80 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots top of horizon; 5 percent coarse distinct irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs2—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loamy fine sand; structureless massive; friable; 2 percent medium prominent spherical noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout and 4 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout and 4 percent coarse faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—86 to 176 centimeters (33.9 to 69.3 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) fine sand; structureless massive; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 1 percent fine prominent cylindrical noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red.; moist when described; observed in pit, small