IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Anguilla
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019MA007013
  • User Pedon ID: S2019MA007013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0208
  • 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: 41.4487222
  • Std. Longitude: -70.5970278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Vineyard Haven near road
  • 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: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Haplic Sulfiwassents
  • 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 - Anguilla
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Haplic Sulfiwassents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/2019
  • Classifier - D.Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Subaqueous Soils Information:
  • SAS Pipe Length Total - 457.2
  • SAS Pipe Length External - 240.8
  • SAS Pipe Length Unfilled - 292.6
  • SAS Core Settlement - 51.8
  • SAS Core Length - 164.6
  • SAS Core Storage Site - UMASS


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/15/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: D. Parizek, M. Vega
  • Surface Water Kind: permanent
  • Surface Water Depth: 174
  • 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

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—17

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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

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    -5.7

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    Ase—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); black (N 2.5/), broken face loamy sand; 5 percent by volume shell fragments fragments observed by visual inspection method; reduced monosulfides present; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 20N00800; observed in vibracore tube. 30% H2O2 TEST: POSITIVE 3% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE
    2C1—17 to 25 centimeters (6.7 to 9.8 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) broken face coarse sand; nonfluid; 25 percent coarse prominent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 20N00801; observed in vibracore tube. 30% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE 3% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE
    2C2—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); light gray (5Y 7/1) broken face coarse sand; nonfluid; 10 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N00802; observed in vibracore tube. 30% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE 3% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE
    2C3—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face very gravelly coarse sand; nonfluid; 10 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 40 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; clear boundary. Lab sample # 20N00803; observed in vibracore tube. 30% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE 3% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE
    2C4—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face sand; nonfluid; 10 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 20N00804; observed in vibracore tube. 30% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE 3% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE
    2C5—109 to 141 centimeters (42.9 to 55.5 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face coarse sand; nonfluid; 10 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 20N00805; observed in vibracore tube. 30% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE 3% H2O2 TEST: NEGATIVE