IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nagunt
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019MA007009
  • User Pedon ID: S2019MA007009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0210
  • User Project ID: 2020_CZSS_high_done
  • Project Name: MLRA 149B - CZSS_Lagoon and Sengekontacket Coastal Ponds_Udipsammets_MA007_MA019
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 41.4577000
  • Std. Longitude: -70.5812833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Tidal marsh area near beach
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA007—Dukes
  • MLRA: 149B—Long Island-Cape Cod Coastal Lowland
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA007—Dukes County, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Parizek, M. Vega
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Sulfic Psammowassents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nagunt
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Sulfic Psammowassents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/2019
  • Classifier - D. Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Subaqueous Soils Information:
  • SAS Core Storage Site - UMASS


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy marine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal lagoon
  • Landform: shore
  • Drainage Class: subaqueous
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot or Site Recorder - D. Parizek, M. Vega

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/14/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: D. Parizek, M. Vega
  • Surface Water Kind: permanent
  • Surface Water Depth: 91
  • 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

    sulfidic materials

    0—14

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    Setting and Climate
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    CAse—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); 80 percent gray (5Y 5/1) broken face and 20 percent black (N 2.5/), broken face gravelly coarse sand; nonfluid; 5 percent by volume shell fragments fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments; reduced monosulfides present; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 20N00811; observed in vibracore tube. 30% H2O2 TEST: POSITIVE 3% H2O2 TEST: POSITIVE Sandworms and sea lettuce present 10% sulfide pockets
    C1—14 to 39 centimeters (5.5 to 15.4 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) broken face gravelly coarse sand; nonfluid; 20 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 20N00812; observed in vibracore tube. 30% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE 3% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE
    C2—39 to 44 centimeters (15.4 to 17.3 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) broken face coarse sand; nonfluid; 5 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 20N00813; observed in vibracore tube. 30% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE 3% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE
    C3—44 to 78 centimeters (17.3 to 30.7 inches); 95 percent dark gray (5Y 4/1) broken face and 5 percent very dark gray (5Y 3/1) broken face gravelly coarse sand; nonfluid; 20 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 20N00814; observed in vibracore tube. 30% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE 3% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE Sandworms present