IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Massapog
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009RI009018-NP
  • User Pedon ID: S2009RI009018-NP
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - URI
  • Lab Pedon # - URI0918NP
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 83005
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024
  • 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: 41.3654556
  • Std. Longitude: -71.6367722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Ninigret Pond, Charlestown, RI, Flood Tidal Delta northeast of inlet
  • 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: 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 - 11/17/2009
  • 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
  • Landform: flood-tidal delta flat
  • Drainage Class: subaqueous
  • Geology: Flood Tidal Delta Flat formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/17/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - water cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • 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

    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) loamy fine sand; structureless single grain; loose; nonfluid; fragments; none of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0918NP1; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Cg—8 to 50 centimeters (3.1 to 19.7 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) fine sand; structureless single grain; loose; nonfluid; 1 percent by volume flat 2-40-75 millimeter shell fragments fragments; none of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); very abrupt boundary. Lab sample # RI0918NP2; moist when described; observed in push tube
    C/Ase—50 to 82 centimeters (19.7 to 32.3 inches); 85 percent very dark gray (5Y 3/1) and 15 percent gray (5Y 5/1) fine sand; structureless massive; very friable; nonfluid; fragments; none of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0918NP3; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Cse—82 to 91 centimeters (32.3 to 35.8 inches); gray (N 5/), fine sand; 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) mottles; structureless massive; very friable; nonfluid; fragments; none of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0918NP4; moist when described; observed in push tube
    A/Cse—91 to 97 centimeters (35.8 to 38.2 inches); 80 percent gray (N 5/), and 20 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine sand; structureless massive; very friable; nonfluid; 3 percent by volume flat 2-40-75 millimeter shell fragments fragments; none of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); abrupt boundary. Lab sample # RI0918NP5; moist when described; observed in push tube
    C'g—97 to 103 centimeters (38.2 to 40.6 inches); gray (N 5/), loamy fine sand; structureless massive; very friable; nonfluid; 3 percent by volume flat 2-40-75 millimeter shell fragments fragments; none of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); abrupt boundary. Lab sample # RI0918NP6; moist when described; observed in push tube
    CAse—103 to 113 centimeters (40.6 to 44.5 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) loamy fine sand; structureless massive; very friable; nonfluid; fragments; none of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); abrupt boundary. Lab sample # RI0918NP7; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Aseb—113 to 146 centimeters (44.5 to 57.5 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) fine sandy loam; structureless massive; very friable; nonfluid; 5 percent by volume flat 2-40-75 millimeter shell fragments fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0918NP8; moist when described; observed in push tube
    C''g—146 to 185 centimeters (57.5 to 72.8 inches); gray (N 5/), fine sand; structureless single grain; loose; nonfluid; 3 percent by volume flat 2-40-75 millimeter shell fragments fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); abrupt boundary. Lab sample # RI0918NP9; moist when described; observed in push tube
    AC1—185 to 195 centimeters (72.8 to 76.8 inches); 60 percent very dark gray (5Y 3/1) and 40 percent gray (N 5/), loamy fine sand; structureless massive; very friable; nonfluid; fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon); clear boundary. Lab sample # RI0918NP10; moist when described; observed in push tube
    AC2—195 to 208 centimeters (76.8 to 81.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) loamy fine sand; structureless massive; very friable; nonfluid; fragments; sulfurous of Odor (Exists in NASIS Horizon). Lab sample # RI0918NP11; moist when described; observed in push tube