IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Montauk
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017MA027058
  • User Pedon ID: S2017MA027058
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0674
  • User Project ID: HARV_001_NEON
  • Project Name: Harvard Forest
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 42.4698333
  • Std. Longitude: -72.2523611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Pit;HARV;20170621;HARV_058; Donald Parizek Jacob Isleib David Zimmerman Michael Margo;14.6;134;40X40 NW;center of pit
  • Map Unit: 915E—Montauk-Canton association, 15 to 35 percent slopes, extremely stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • 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: MA614—Worcester County, Massachusetts, Northwestern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42072-D3—Quabbin Reservoir, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald Parizek
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Montauk
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 30 to 105 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/2017
  • Classifier - Donald Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy till over sandy flow till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: nonflat subrounded 250- to 600-millimeter mixed, nonflat subangular 250- to 600-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 58
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - HARV_058
  • DSP Plot ID - NW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 134
  • Plot Baseline Length - 15
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Donald Parizek

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Jacob Isleib
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    89 - 120

    - 31 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    5—12

    12—66

    89—

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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

    7

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    650

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    270

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; very friable; many very fine roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N03416; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/3) broken face highly organic cobbly fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; many very fine roots throughout and many coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 76-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 17N03417; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—12 to 43 centimeters (4.7 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face stony fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately few very fine roots throughout and very few very coarse roots throughout and moderately few medium roots throughout and very few coarse roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 76-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N03418; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face cobbly sandy loam; friable; moderately few very fine roots throughout and moderately few medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 76-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-39-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N03419; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2BC—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face gravelly loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately few very fine roots throughout and moderately few fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular 76-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N03420; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Cd—89 to 120 centimeters (35.0 to 47.2 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) broken face loamy sand; structureless massive; firm; few very fine roots in cracks and few fine roots in cracks; silt coats; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N03421; moist when described; observed in pit, small