IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Massapog
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009RI009002-QP
  • User Pedon ID: S2009RI009002-QP
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - URI
  • Lab Pedon # - URI0902QP
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82992
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 41.3352528
  • Std. Longitude: -71.7288278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Flood Tidal Delta Flat, Quonochontaug Pond, West of breachway
  • State: Rhode Island
  • County: RI009—Washington
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: RI600—State of Rhode Island: Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, and Washington Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41071-C6—Quonochontaug, Rhode Island

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Turenne and Maggie Payne
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Fluventic Psammowassents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Massapog
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Fluventic Psammowassents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy marine deposits over organic material
  • Landform: flood-tidal delta flat
  • Drainage Class: subaqueous
  • Geology: Flood Tidal Delta Flat formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/10/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - water cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    aquic conditions

    reduced matrix

    sulfidic materials

    sapric soil materials

    0—273

    0—273

    184—273

    250—258

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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
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    CA—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) fine sand; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0902QP1; moist when described; observed in push tube
    ACse—14 to 45 centimeters (5.5 to 17.7 inches); black (5Y 2.5/1) fine sand; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # RI0902QP2; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Cg—45 to 64 centimeters (17.7 to 25.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) sand; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # RI0902QP3; moist when described; observed in push tube
    AC'se—64 to 93 centimeters (25.2 to 36.6 inches); 50 percent very dark gray (5Y 3/1) and 50 percent very dark gray (N 3/), fine sand; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0902QP4; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Aseb—93 to 104 centimeters (36.6 to 40.9 inches); very dark gray (N 3/), fine sand; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # RI0902QP5; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Cse—104 to 115 centimeters (40.9 to 45.3 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0902QP6; moist when described; observed in push tube
    C'g1—115 to 145 centimeters (45.3 to 57.1 inches); gray (N 5/), sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0902QP7; moist when described; observed in push tube
    C'g2—145 to 159 centimeters (57.1 to 62.6 inches); gray (N 5/), fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0902QP8; moist when described; observed in push tube
    CA'—159 to 172 centimeters (62.6 to 67.7 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0902QP9; moist when described; observed in push tube
    C''g—172 to 184 centimeters (67.7 to 72.4 inches); gray (N 5/), fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0902QP10; moist when described; observed in push tube
    C/A—184 to 273 centimeters (72.4 to 107.5 inches); 70 percent gray (N 5/), and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) stratified stratified highly decomposed plant material to loamy fine sand to fine sandy loam; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; fragments. Lab sample # RI0902QP11; moist when described; observed in push tube